"Odd wildebeest cousin had a ‘vuvuzela’ in its head" Topic

"In 1983, paleontologists gave an odd, now-extinct cousin of the wildebeest the name Rusingoryx atopocranion (Greek for "the strange-skulled antelope from Rusinga"). But at the time, they had no idea how strange the beast truly was. Turns out, it had an S-shaped tube in its skull—a feature known from no other mammal, living or extinct—that may have allowed it to bellow at unusually low frequencies. The finding, reported online today in Current Biology, comes from CT scans of several more-complete skulls of the species (artist's concept, above) also unearthed on Kenya's Rusinga Island, a near-shore landmass in the northeastern corner of Africa's Lake Victoria. The newly described fossils, entombed in sediments deposited on a floodplain sometime between 40,000 and 285,000 years ago, include the skulls of both adults (which are about the same size as today's wildebeest) and juveniles…"

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Armand

As possibly the only fan of the wildebeest here, consider me pleased. :)

Muppetsaurs =^,^=

‘vuvuzela' A mind-numbing torture device made of cheap, brightly coloured plastic. A weapon of mass destruction on the ears, definitely not S shaped and certainly not of low resonance, this 'musical' instrument is an insult to that beast and to decent ears. Best melted down into a blob of useless plastic.
Have I tell you guys how much I dislike the vu-vu-zela? :)

‘vuvuzela' A mind-numbing torture device made of cheap, brightly coloured plastic. A weapon of mass destruction on the ears, definitely not S shaped and certainly not of low resonance, this 'musical' instrument is an insult to that beast and to decent ears. Best melted down into a blob of useless plastic.
Have I tell you guys how much I dislike the vu-vu-zela? :)
On the other hand the Rusingoryx must have been a magnificent beastie.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand