Posted on 06/05/2022 9:07:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“Genyornis was two meters tall and 200 kilos. We don’t know exactly what it would have looked like because it’s been dead for a while and there are few skeletal remains available. It was certainly a flightless bird with some characteristics shared with ostriches, like the big chest and small wings, but it would have looked more like a big goose or duck,”
The evidence that humans were eating these large eggs comes from burnt eggshells found among the remains of ancient cultures. Scientists studying these sites find two different types of eggshells, one of which comes from emus and another which was unknown. Looking at the archaeological record, we find that the eggshells start being burned right around the same time people first arrived in Australia. This supports the notion that they were cooking and eating them as they had done with other large, flightless birds in Africa, India, and Eurasia.
“Genyornis was a really big bird. If you look at its femur, it’s huge. So, you would expect the egg to be as big and as thick as an ostrich, but ostrich eggs are significantly thicker. The whole argument was based on morphological traits of these eggshells, so the idea came up that perhaps it was an egg from an extinct megapode,”
“If you compare the proteins from a bunch of living birds, including the megapodes, you can sort of build a tree that’s good at separating out the major groups. All of the ostriches went on one side, all the land fowl go on another side, and then there’s the waterfowl. When we extracted proteins from the eggshell, we found that it never falls within the chicken and megapode group,”
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Ha. That's a good one....however, Denisovans are hominins. (archaic humans)
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I am partial to the 416 Rigby myself. Which the Remy was created to duplicate in a standard mauser length action. There is something sexy about the Rigby’s huge fat case and thumb sized bullets. With woodleigh solids I have never recovered one in the bush. I took a cape buff with one in a North bound shot on a South bound buffalo complete penetration from stern to stem that’s over 7 feet of angry animal. In broadsides they leave fist sized exit holes every time. Unlike the movies flesh and bone regardless of the animal is softer than steel and copper and lead. I have zero doubt that a 416 Rigby would go completely through a T Rex sized animal. The 50bmg would be vast overkill with two times the energy of a 416. Humans are the apex predator who has ever lived on this planet we can kill any other animal that lives or lived. Blue whales are the largest animal to ever live dwarfing dinosaurs and humans nearly hunted them to extinction with sailboats before the industrial age and modern killing machines.
Looks like a good contender!
Many years ago, emus were worth a lot of money until the market got way over saturated. At that point the birds and eggs became pretty much worthless. One of the guys brought a few in to work and we ate them for breakfast.
They had a little different color and consistency from chicken eggs but to be honest, if they were seasoned up I’m not sure I would have cued in on it not being chicken.
We also had a bunch of emus that were running loose on our deer lease terrorizing the deer. I hadn’t really thought much about it when I dropped the hammer on one, assuming that it would have a big breast like birds that can fly. When I cut into it, it had about the same amount of meat as a mammal.
We cooked it several ways and weren’t impressed with the taste enough to ever eat another one.
The 50 bmg would be overkill a 416 Rigby or Remy would do the job. T REX was effectively a flightless bird it’s hide and flesh would be no stronger than any other avian species they likely were feathered too. A good solid bullet the same used for elephant,hippo,buff or,rino would go completely through an animal of that size driven at 8000+ ft lbs of energy. The 50 bmg with 13,000+ which was designed to take out steel plated armor would blow holes in a poor T rex. The 50 is not even the largest caliber that a single human can shoot from the shoulder the 20mm is the next step up again doubling the ft lbs then there is the 23 mm technically pun intended not shoulder fired but still portable to the field. Poor Trex don’t stand a chance. There is nothing that has ever walked,swam,flown,or slithered that humans could not hunt to extinction with extreme prejudice we are the most effective killing species to ever live bar none.
http://www.anzioironworks.com/MAG-FED-20MM-RIFLE.htm
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2018/05/29/separatist-anti-material-rifle/
But I don't like spam!
First thing I thought of.
You and I think alike. I’m not sure that is a good thing. ;-D
Who doesn’t like Ringo playing a caveman.😁
Now that’s a big drumstick lol
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