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To: Fred Nerks

One piece at a time !

I think I read somewhere that hyenas have the strongest crushing jaw strength of any mammal.


52 posted on 05/09/2021 6:35:31 PM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily; ETL; SunkenCiv

EARTH IN UPHEAVAL

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—there is a fissure filled with animal bones. “Why should so many wolves, bears, horses, and oxen have ascended a hill isolated on all sides?” asked Albert Gaudry, professor at the Jardin des Plantes. According to him, the bones in this cleft are mostly broken and splintered into innumerable sharp fragments and are “evidently not those of animals devoured by beasts of prey; nor have they been broken by man. Nevertheless, the remains of wolf were particularly abundant, together with those of cave lion, bear, rhinoceros, horse, ox, and deer. It is not possible to suppose that animals of such different natures, and of such different habitats, would in life ever have been together.”7 Yet the state of preservation of the bones indicates that the animals—all of them— perished in the same period of time. Prestwich thought that the animal bones, “now associated in the fissure on the summit of the hill,” were found in common heaps because, “we may suppose, all these animals had fled...


56 posted on 05/09/2021 6:51:17 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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