Posted on 07/28/2008 8:08:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in the Sverdlovsk Region in Russia's Urals have discovered the 9,000-year-old bones of a rhinoceros, a local museum worker said on Monday.
The excavations during which the bones were discovered were carried out at a site on the bank of the Lobva River, said Nikolai Yerokhin from the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Plant And Animal Ecology department.
It was generally assumed that rhinoceros last wandered the Urals some 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. However, the latest findings seem to prove that they existed in the area a lot more recently.
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Urals... the Urals... there’s just something about that name that seems like there’s a joke lurkin’ in there...
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Now I wasn’t expecting that!
I was expecting to see McCain!
:’) but alas...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2052895/posts?page=9#9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2052895/posts?page=18#18
Another excavation site was found on a hill north of Virginia. 9000 year old ‘rinos’ were found grazing on green paper next to 9000 year old jackasses.
Ted Stevens went to Russia and died? When did this happen?
I know something made of rayon that is part leopard, part retard.
“It was generally assumed that rhinoceros last wandered the Urals some 15,000 to 20,000 years ago.”
Well, if the Rhinoceros was 9000 years old, then that could be consistent with wandering 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. It just stayed a long time after wandering in.
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