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  • It Had A "Strong Pleistocene Aroma": In 1984, Scientists Ate A 50,000-Year-Old Bison In A Stew

    10/06/2025 11:16:23 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    IFL Science ^ | September 25, 2025 | Rachael Funnell
    “The taste was delicious, and none of us suffered any ill effects from the meal.” =========================================================== Blue Babe bison lived twice. First, 50,000 years ago, the steppe bison (Bison priscus) wandered Ice Age Alaska until a lion brought it down. Its second life began millennia later, when scientists uncovered its perfectly preserved body from the Alaskan permafrost, where it had lain frozen since that ancient day. The remarkably well-preserved bison was first discovered by gold miners in 1979 and handed over to scientists as a rare find, being the only known example of a Pleistocene bison reclaimed from the permafrost....
  • Mystery Of The Fat Venus (Porn?)

    04/09/2007 2:38:27 PM PDT · by blam · 72 replies · 7,314+ views
    Stuff.com.nz ^ | 4-9-2007 | Bob Brockie
    Mystery of the fat Venus The Dominion Post | Monday, 9 April 2007 WORLD OF SCIENCE - BOB BROCKIE We all know about those hand-sized Ice Age women carved in stone – those plump ladies with huge breasts and behinds, tiny heads, artful hairdos and no faces. They're known as Palaeolithic Venuses and they raise a lot of puzzling questions: How come these almost identical figurines were found all the way from France to Siberia? How come this stylised carving tradition was practised and passed down over 20,000 years? What purpose did they serve? There are as many answers to...