[decimon]

Passed through ping.

[JoeProBono]

[al baby]

Did they match the dna up with Helen Thomas

[pctech]

You know it really amazes me how our scientific community can say something is 200,000 years old when carbon dating can only go back 50,000 years? Why oh why can’t people just believe what the Bible says about the earth being 6,000 years old and go from there I’ll never know.

[SIDENET]

Some poor guy has been hyena poop for 200,000 years.

Think about that the next time you're having a bad day.

;-)

[pillut48]

Does this mean there’s going to be a run on dung among archaeologists now? ;-)

Insert joke about dung experts and Congress >here<!!
;-)

[MARTIAL MONK]

Life’s a bitch and then you’re hyena crap.

[BereanBrain]

if you read the article, the hair is consistent with human hair, the could get no DNA from it, so in reality, they are making a bit of a logical leap here.

[muir_redwoods]

It’s a real bad career path that results in becoming 200,000 year-old hyena poop

[gscc]

“It is extremely rare for soft tissue such as hair, skin and muscle to survive more than a few hundred years and only hard tissue like bone is fossilised normally.”

Recent postings have brought to light soft tissue that was found in a duck billed dinosaur that “scientists” dated as being 80 million years old. This article seems to suggest that soft tissue is unlikely to survive “more than a few hundred years”. Someone is seriously wrong here.

http://creation.com/dinosaur-soft-tissue-and-proteineven-more-confirmation

[Sherman Logan]

the remains of an early species of human that was scavenged by hyaenas after death

Huge logical leap.

Hyenas used to be thought of only as scavengers. Recent research has found they are among the major predators of Africa. It's at least as logical that this person was killed and eaten by hyenas.

[central_va]

Palaeontologists found 40 strands of fossilised hair inside samples of coprolite, or fossilised dung, from a cave in South Africa that was used by brown hyaenas.

That is an amazing sentence from a purely english lexical syntax perspective. 7 nouns and 2 verbs.....

[sinanju]

hyaena poo is where we ALL ended up until we started burying our dead.

And I do mean ALL of us.

[seanmerc]

Courtesy shout out to the Helen Thomas ping list. FReepmail me if you'd like to be added to the list.

[blam]

Early (Ancient) Hair Sample Raises Questions

""We came out with a dirt clod and inside the dirt clod was a human hair 14 inches long," she said. "It was so old there was no pigment."

"While scientists have yet to determine its age, the layer of soil it was in dates back 11,000 to 12,000 years.

[martin_fierro]

Palaeontologists found 40 strands of fossilised hair inside samples of coprolite, or fossilised dung,

"It's Always In The Last Place You Look" PING

[SunkenCiv]

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[U S Army EOD]

Will Bush be blamed for this?

[CholeraJoe]

Run maternal and Y DNA on it. Blam and I might match and be entitled to reparations from the South African government. I want mine in 1 oz Krugerrands, if you please.

[wildbill]

this was the archetype of a bad hair day.