Pretty interesting stuff.
That’s a big ####ing bird!!!
You’d need like 20 pounds of stuffing!!
So Big Bird is Polish?
Was probably flipping the bird off, and got his finger bitten off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacidae
‘Terror Birds’ were in South America, not Europe.
More likely passed through a vulture.
In Paleolithic Age, chicken eat you.
So the bird raided a Neanderthal cave and was killed there after eating the kid? Or did the bird eat the kid and the Neanderthals kill it and drag it back home?
It seems odd that bones belonging to a Neanderthal who passed through a giant bird would be found in the camp/cave of his fellow Neanderthals.
Those look like Terror birds and as a commenter pointed out at the source, they were long gone before this child died.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150727-the-reign-of-the-terror-birds
Well, the bird is the word.
(Thought you guys had us there for awhile, I’m stunned we were able to come back)
But they call the kid "a poor child." So even without DNA testing they were able to discover the socio-economic status of the kid's family.
” they come from a very deep layer of the cave,
Dr. Valde-Nowak added that just because the bones were discovered in the cave, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the Neanderthals used it as a permanent residence. He said that it is entirely possible that they just used it seasonally”
And shared it with large carnivorous birds? Or maybe the birds just liked to use the cave as a bathroom? How about the Neanderthals brought the bird poop into the cave themselves? And the final question? How did they determine that the partially digested bone had passed through a bird and not , say a sabre tooth tiger? Just askin
How many giant, Polish birds does it take
to eat the Neanderthal child?
he can count the number of unearthed Neanderthal remains on a single hand, including the child’s finger bones. This groundbreaking discovery was almost overlooked because, when the phalange bones were first found in the cave, they were accidentally mixed up with animal bones. It wasn’t until a laboratory analysis was conducted on the bones that scientists figured out how important they were. The analysis showed that the child was somewhere between five and seven-years-old when he died. The bones are tiny, less than one centimeter long, and are poorly preserved so scientists will unfortunately not be able to conduct DNA analysis on them</I>
Explains why the first known sentence spoken by a bird was, “Get me the hell out of here”!
That bird does not look that much different than the Raptors in the Jurassic Park movie with out the feathers.
I think I know what happened to the dinosaurs.
*ping*
