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Oldest Human Hair Found In Fossilized Hyena Dung
Discovery News ^
| Feb 10, 2009
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 02/10/2009 10:45:50 AM PST by Islander7
Hairs that likely belonged to humans living 195,000 to 257,000 years ago in Africa have been identified in fossilized brown hyena dung, according to a new study that describes the first non-bony material in the early human fossil record.
Until now, the oldest known human hairs were from a 9,000-year-old Chinchorro mummy from Arica, northern Chile. This latest discovery, made at Gladysvale cave, South Africa, exceeds the mummy's age by about 200,000 years.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: archeology; fossils; godsgravesglyphs; science
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"The oldest known hairs (for all mammals) are found in carnivore feces, permafrost and amber," Lucinda Backwell, who led the study, told Discovery News.
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posted on
02/10/2009 10:45:50 AM PST
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Islander7
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
02/10/2009 10:46:12 AM PST
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Islander7
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posted on
02/10/2009 10:48:28 AM PST
by
Mojave
(Barack Obama is a joke)
To: Islander7
Translated, a Hyena had a good meal.
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posted on
02/10/2009 10:49:18 AM PST
by
mnehring
Comment #5 Removed by Moderator
To: Mojave
I did a title search and it did not show up.
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posted on
02/10/2009 10:50:00 AM PST
by
Islander7
(If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
To: Islander7
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02/10/2009 10:50:24 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: mnehrling
“Hairs that likely belonged to humans living 195,000 to 257,000 years ago in Africa have been identified in fossilized brown hyena dung,”
Great! What’s for lunch?
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02/10/2009 10:50:59 AM PST
by
Batman11
("Big ears isn't my President!")
To: Puppage
You found a pic of the Hynea.. neat..
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02/10/2009 10:52:08 AM PST
by
mnehring
To: Islander7
“fossilized brown hyena dung”
Was the dung brown or the hyena brown? Or both?
To: Islander7
Hyenas feasted on human beings 275,000.
Today we have the democrat party feasting on people.
I prefer hyenas.
To: Islander7
“Let me pick a number out of my hat.”
“Ooops! Wrong hat!”
To: Islander7
Hyenas feasted on human beings 275,000 years ago.
Today we have the democrat party feasting on people.
I prefer hyenas.
To: Puppage
post 7, That’s pretty fast....
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02/10/2009 10:56:57 AM PST
by
central_va
(Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
To: Islander7
Human hair in Hyena dung will become quite common.
I believe it is mandated in the Porkulous Package as a favor to PETA.
Something about letting Hyenas eat the disabled & seniors.
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02/10/2009 10:59:47 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(Each one of us will have to decide whether we will fight this government machine, or join it.)
To: central_va
post 7, That’s pretty fast....
Sure was. Is that a picture of the hyena or the dung?
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02/10/2009 11:00:14 AM PST
by
RobinOfKingston
(Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
To: Puppage
Poster, I think your implication by posting this photo has to do somehow with the idea of the oldest human. I can assure you that if human females looked like that back then, the human race would have failed to propagate, resulting in complete extinction within one generation.
To: RobinOfKingston
Get that woman a burkha....
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02/10/2009 11:01:20 AM PST
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central_va
(Co. C, 15th Va., Patrick Henry Rifles-The boys of Hanover Co.)
To: Puppage
One other thing, that’s one meal even a hungry hyena would have avoided.
To: FormerACLUmember
Will this do?
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02/10/2009 11:02:28 AM PST
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G.Mason
(Each one of us will have to decide whether we will fight this government machine, or join it.)
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