About 800,00 years ago, early European cavemen enjoyed eating children and adolescents, perhaps particularly feasting on their brains.
This was the finding of a study conducted in Spain and covered by the National Geographic. And to make it more colorful, there’s also the wax model of an early human female happily scooping out the brains of a human head. Delish!
This would really hurt the street cred of this monstah, ending its movie career.
“It’s a distinct possibility that Sue died of starvation by a substantial infection in the back of the throat” brought on by a tiny parasite, said Ewan Wolff, a paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and lead author of a paper describing the team’s findings published Tuesday in the online science journal PloS One.
In the past, Wolff said, many paleontologists have speculated that the holes in Sue’s jaw were caused by bite marks that were a product of Sue’s rampaging lifestyle. T. rexes were among the largest meat-eaters on Earth during their reign in the Cretaceous period 144 million years ago. They had to eat a lot, and often, to support their enormous bodies.
But Wolff and his team propose a much more prosaic cause for Sue’s decline: a disease called trichomonosis that infects modern birds of prey. Birds, which are thought to be direct descendants of dinosaurs, pick up the bug by feeding on other animals infected with the disease, Wolff said.
Wolff thinks the parasite, a protozoan named Trichomonas gallinae, settled in the back of Sue’s throat, and in nine other Tyrannosaurs he studied with similar holes. The parasite caused inflammation that eventually damaged the jawbone, he theorized. As the infection worsened, the throat swelled to a point that “the esophagus gets narrower and narrower,” Wolff said. “Death is by starvation.”
Mankind’s desire and subsequent attempts to fly, told in countless myths, were actually more than just tall tales. Some ancient civilizations did seem to work at achieving flight. Below, for instance, are “helicopter” and “submarine” reliefs from Abydos, while at bottom is a thousand-year-old “airplane model” from ancient America.
A giant rock formation resembling a city wall [video here] has been discovered under the Taiwan Strait.
The 220m stretch of basalt rock was found by biodiversity researcher Jeng Ming-hsiou.
He said it was likely to have been formed by a volcanic eruption up to 1,800 years ago.
This time traveler probably swung by in China sometime during the Ming dynasty to leave a Swiss ring watch, just for the heck of it.
The watch ring was discovered as archeologists were making a documentary with two journalists from Shangsi town.
“When we tried to remove the soil wrapped around the coffin, a piece of rock suddenly dropped off and hit the ground with a metallic sound,? said Jiang Yanyu, former curator of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Museum.
“We picked up the object, and found it was a ring. After removing the covering soil and examining it further, we were shocked to see it was a watch.”
The time was stopped at 10:06am, and on the back was engraved the word “Swiss”, reports the People’s Daily.
Local experts say they are confused as they believe the tomb had been undisturbed since it was created during the Ming dynasty 400 years ago.
German archaeologist Clemens Reichel says the 6,000-year-old relics his team found in northeast Syria indicates the “oldest example of an offensive war.”
The dig is being conducted in the ancient city of Hamoukar, on Iraq’s border, where Reichel, studying the remains of what he believes was an ancient attack from those rowdy folks from southern Mesopotamia, speaks of a real “combat zone” involving 2300 balls of clay.
Yes, balls of clay. You can imagine that when the guys realized nobody’s being killed, they went home and picked up real rocks.
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