[SunkenCiv]

Full title: "Scientists 'Surprised' to Discover Very Early Ancestors Survived On Tropical Plants, New Study Suggests".

Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali: Mio-Pliocene hominids from Chad

[BenLurkin]

Unexpected!

[HiTech RedNeck]

From carbon isotopes the whiz kids say that this beast/man chowed down on grass or sedges?

I’d like to know how this got figured out. What if they ate beef... which in turn ate the grass or sedges?

[Secret Agent Man]

we weren’t allowed to eat meat until after the flood, no surprise here.

[equaviator]

I’m surprised at how Mick Jagger can play bluesy harmonica the way he does...

[fattigermaster]

[Noob1999]

Well, it seems that very early man knew how to chew those pesky plants that soaked up CO2, to give him energy whilst balancing the CO2 of the planet for thousands of later generations to enjoy the sun on a beach

[bert]

It would seem possible the species of the tooth in question was from a non humanoid species.