Note: this topic is from . Thanks Sabertooth.
This is a re-ping in order to update the ping list message (which we'v been using since 2014, btw) and because it's probably of interest to anyone who liked the recebt topic Mediterranean megaflood confirmed.
It also occurs to me that I forgot to / never got a chance to ping the weekly list.
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However -- here's a discovery, directly related to the literal subject of the article:
I, out of boredom, am reading the November, 1985 National Geographic (the one with the holograph of a hominid skull on the cover). In it, all of pages 606 & 607 are devoted to the skull of a young hominid, who, evidently, was grabbed by the head by a Sabertooth, dragged up into a tree and devoured.
The remains -- including the skull, with paired, round holes -- matching the lower canines of a nearby sabertooth skull...fell into the Swartkrans cave, excavations of which are shown on p. 606.
But p. 707 illustrates how the sabertooth's upper canines pierced the hominid/s eye sockets -- while the lower canines puched the distinct holes in the back of the skull.
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What a weird coincidence: for you to post this article from a now-defunct FReeper -- and for me to be reading the Nat Geo article that illustrates it beautifully!
