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Dodo skeleton find in Mauritius
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| June 24, 2006
Posted on 06/24/2006 6:32:32 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
My guess would be that they became extinct because they were quite tasty.
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posted on
06/24/2006 6:35:19 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Liberalism's main product is Death.)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
The dodo was mocked by Portuguese and Dutch colonialists for its size and apparent lack of fear of armed, hungry hunters.???
"Hey boys, lookie here. It's a Dodo Bird...or should I say DooDoo bird....bwhahahaha....where'd you git those big wings anyway?...don't do ya much good, 'cause you fly right into those Dodo traps ever time, don't ya?...bwhahahaha...I hear there's a place called Buffalo that's looking for birds like you...bwhahahaha...dumb birds...bwhaha..."
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Like chicken, I'd bet. Like a giant chicken.
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posted on
06/24/2006 6:45:32 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
(Art Bell made the Philippines sound pretty sweet)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Maybe they will find some DNA and try to bring them back from extinction...
So I kind find out if they tasted good firsthand !
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posted on
06/24/2006 6:46:51 PM PDT
by
apillar
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
"The Dodo? It's dead, Jim"
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posted on
06/24/2006 6:47:03 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(No Christian will dare say that [Genesis] must not be taken in a figurative sense. St Augustine)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
This sort of extinction happened everywhere that humans settled throughout Polynesia. Many species of delectable, stupid, flightless birds became extinct within a few years of humans colonizing their islands.
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posted on
06/24/2006 6:48:01 PM PDT
by
Zeroisanumber
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu; Darksheare
The international multidisciplinary team assembled specially for the current expedition includes archaeologists, palaeontologists, and sedimentologists from 15 different institutes in various countries. And not a chef or saucier amongst them. This makes it highly unlikely that they will find anything worth eating.
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posted on
06/24/2006 6:53:03 PM PDT
by
ARealMothersSonForever
(Political troglodyte with a partisan axe to grind)
To: ARealMothersSonForever
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posted on
06/24/2006 6:54:21 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(This is a test of the emergency tagline system. Had there been an emergency, you would have heard...)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
This cave painting was found nearby.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/24/2006 7:05:57 PM PDT
by
FairOpinion
(Dem Foreign Policy: SURRENDER to our enemies. Real conservatives don't help Dems get elected.)
To: ARealMothersSonForever
The international multidisciplinary team assembled specially for the current expedition includes archaeologists, palaeontologists, and sedimentologists from 15 different institutes in various countries. And not a chef or saucier amongst them. This makes it highly unlikely that they will find anything worth eating.
I see you don't know archaeologists! Not sure about those other wimps, but archaeologists know their way around a campfire.
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posted on
06/24/2006 7:08:39 PM PDT
by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
.....hunted to extinction within 200 years of Europeans landing on Mauritius. Bush's ancestors fault!
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posted on
06/24/2006 7:09:08 PM PDT
by
edpc
To: edpc
Global warming caused by exhaust fumes from seven masted schooners.
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posted on
06/24/2006 7:14:47 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
My guess would be that they became extinct because they were quite tasty. They apparently were. Along with being very easy prey.
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posted on
06/24/2006 7:18:53 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(The bottom 60% does 40% of the work, the top 40% does 60% of the work. Just who are the "workers"?)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
"Yes, sir! You've found the last dodo!"
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posted on
06/24/2006 7:28:49 PM PDT
by
WestVirginiaRebel
(Common sense will do to liberalism what the atomic bomb did to Nagasaki-Rush Limbaugh)
To: apillar
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posted on
06/24/2006 7:34:04 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
The find includes a complete hip and four leg bones for a single animal. Bones from numerous other dodos were also unearthed, such as skull parts, beak bones, vertebrae, wing bones and toe bones. Sooo, they stumbled on garbage dump behind Kentucky Fried Dodo? What, bones no good? Dogs no eat?
Lazy bird, didn't bother to fly, extinckted like RATs are heading to.
To: Jedi Master Pikachu
"The bird is thought to have been hunted to extinction by European settlers"
From my reading, IIRC, they became extinct in large part, from feral pigs introduced to the island.
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posted on
06/24/2006 7:40:30 PM PDT
by
nralife
To: FairOpinion
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posted on
06/24/2006 8:41:01 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Wednesday, June 21, 2006.)
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