[BenLurkin]

Chalcolithic fungus ping

[Opinionated Blowhard]

An even bigger surprise came when the team was able to successfully grow four living groups of yeast fungi pulled from Ötzi’s body

Isn't this the way several sci fi horror movies started?

[Sacajaweau]

Just asking for trouble...

[Duke C.]

I wonder if he has any viable DNA. Can he be cloned?

[Deaf Smith]

“naturally frozen in a mountain glacier”

Is that the same as naturally drowned in ocean?

Same as naturally burned and buried in a pyroclastic flow?

How does one know that the glacier was not a train station?

It did 5K years to find the murder victim.

[VTenigma]

I saw a movie about this once. Put him back.

[Magnum44]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Otzi was relatively unknown until a known hoax began about him. A homosexual magazine published, as a gag, that frozen semen had been found in his rectum. The story was picked up by news media across Europe.

It didn’t matter that the magazine later retracted the hoax.

But on the plus side, it has resulted in Otzi getting a LOT more legitimate scientific research than he likely would have otherwise.

[roving]

I was hoping they would say what his last meal was.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“he was killed via an arrow to his back”

Ferals everywhere throughout history.

[JimRed]

Otzi’s corpse was likely contaminated with lots of stuff before it was properly stored.

[TangoLimaSierra]

Probably Ebola. It’s been going around.

[dagunk]

Otzi has cooties....

[Jeff Chandler]

Well that’s not good.