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| Tango01 | 23 Apr 2019 12:41 p.m. PST |
…an Entire Rattlesnake—Fang Included. "A 1,500-year-old chunk of fossilized human poop found at a former rock shelter in Texas contains evidence of an ancient hunter-gatherer who consumed an entire rattlesnake—including a fang. Archaeologists have never seen anything quite like it. Back in the late 1960s, archaeologists collected over 1,000 samples of human-produced coprolites, or dried-out poop, at the Conejo Shelter site in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas. A team led by archaeologist Elanor Sonderman from Texas A&M University recently took a new look at this old poop, leading to a rather remarkable discovery…."
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| Gone Fishing | 23 Apr 2019 12:48 p.m. PST |
He probably did it on a dare. |
 Editor in Chief Bill   | 23 Apr 2019 12:48 p.m. PST |
No wonder he's dead.  |
| SOB Van Owen | 23 Apr 2019 2:06 p.m. PST |
Hey, Vernixqualtsimmis. Hold my mescal and watch this. As the researchers point out in the new study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, this unique—and potentially life-threatening—ingestive act was likely done for ceremonial or ritualistic reasons, and not for the nutrition. Yup. |
| Zephyr1 | 23 Apr 2019 9:12 p.m. PST |
The guy who swallowed a tortoise didn't fare as well… |
| GurKhan | 24 Apr 2019 1:05 a.m. PST |
And a mouse as well. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly… |
 ochoin  | 24 Apr 2019 1:29 a.m. PST |
"Poop"?
Are we in the second grade? If you don't want to use a vulgar term, use ascientific or Latin one. The credibility of the whole article died with "poop". |
| Tango01 | 24 Apr 2019 11:17 a.m. PST |
Ha-Ha-Ha!….
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| Come In Nighthawk | 24 Apr 2019 1:05 p.m. PST |
Did they collect the samples w/ a pooper-scooper? |
| Tango01 | 25 Apr 2019 12:03 p.m. PST |
Dude!… (smile)
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