Everybody knows about the bird.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. And there's a crapton more recent Neandertal stories, I've just not posted 'em, the election crunch and all.
Posted on 10/09/2018 4:16:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Tiny holes in the bones indicate that they passed through a large bird’s digestive system, according to Professor Pawel Valde-Nowak of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. It’s not clear, however, whether the bird attacked and ate the young Neanderthal or scavenged the remains of a dead child.
Believed to be about 115,000 years old, the bones are the oldest human remains ever discovered in Poland.
Experts from the Jagiellonian University and Washington University in St. Louis confirmed that the remains are digital bones from a child’s hand.
The Archaeological Museum of Krakow and the Polish Academy of Sciences also participated in the research, which will be published in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.
The closest human species to homo sapiens, Neanderthals lived in Eurasia for around 350,000 years. Scientists in Poland report that Neanderthals in Europe mostly became extinct 35,000 years ago. However, there are a number of theories on the timing of Neanderthals’ extinction, with experts saying that it could have occurred 40,000, 27,000 or 24,000 years ago.
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“Why was the alligator on vacation? Inquiring minds want to know.”
For the same reason many people go on vacation, so it could eat things it really enjoys. In other words, there must be tastier kids at Disney Land.
Everybody knows about the bird.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj. And there's a crapton more recent Neandertal stories, I've just not posted 'em, the election crunch and all.
The Neandertal Enigma"Frayer's own reading of the record reveals a number of overlooked traits that clearly and specifically link the Neandertals to the Cro-Magnons. One such trait is the shape of the opening of the nerve canal in the lower jaw, a spot where dentists often give a pain-blocking injection. In many Neandertal, the upper portion of the opening is covered by a broad bony ridge, a curious feature also carried by a significant number of Cro-Magnons. But none of the alleged 'ancestors of us all' fossils from Africa have it, and it is extremely rare in modern people outside Europe." [pp 126-127]
by James Shreeve
in local libraries
Big birds are scavengers.
Back in these days it was watching your relatives getting eaten by scavengers (and the stink) that drove early man to bury their dead.
No one wants to see a little girl eaten. But when you are in the food chain, this stuff happens. Die in the woods—see how long you stay in one piece.
Ding,Ding do I win?
Alligators have to have some downtime occasionally, too.
And each other!!
Ol’ Andy...
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