Posted on 03/16/2016 2:03:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
A multi-disciplinary team of scientists have discovered the skull of a weird, unique extinct human and who was found in an underground cave
Homo naledi fragments of skull and jaw
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Scientists have discovered a skull belonging to a previously unknown species of human from three million years ago.
The research team made up of paleoanthropologists stumbled across the remains in an underground cave and have now put together a skeleton which stands at 4ft 9 tall and is described as "a really, really strange creature."
Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and his co-horts stumbled across 15 individuals skeletons which they believe make up a tribe of the bizarre human species - and now they've found the missing link.
And while they resemble homo sapiens - like modern day humans - the species could more more than 2.8 million years old.
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
I’ve read bits of Greek history that say Alcibiades was a hell of a soldier, along with that business about the Spartan king’s wife-some say he fathered a kid on her-he also had a wife, and may have kept an official mistress, too-but that wasn’t exactly unusual for powerful and well-off men in Greece at that time...
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Well, of course they are trashing him-isn’t he just about the only one who isn’t a lawyer?
My mother and her mother both had red hair. My sister as well.
Me? I got black hair. Had black hair. What’s left is gray.......................
I would be as much gray as red without Clairol...
They represent the Lollipop Kid.
Don’t you mean The Lollipop Guild?
Agreed, but last time I read about it, they were having trouble dating the remains.
Seems some of the usual dating techniques don't work in this particular circumstance.
Indeed, according to Wackypedia, those remains still are not dated.
That means the age of 2.8 million years is strictly educated guess-work based on similar remains found elsewhere which could be dated.
So, at some point they will find a reliable method for dating these bones, and then we'll learn they were not 2.8 million years, but rather "x.y" years old.
Then many will have a field day claiming, "see, see, science is worthless".
Not science itself, but a lot of science writers seem to be taken from goats of their class.
Fair enough. You can’t expect today’s journalists to be too technical.
They don’t know much about much.
That cave system is pretty cool. I don’t know about their theory that the bodies were dropped in from above though. It doesn’t look that plausible based on that graphic at any rate.
A world apart.
Homo Foamio.
I noticed that too, it presumes some evidence of an ancient sinkhole, now filled it.
Much remains unexplained.
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