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Oldest Human Hair Found in Hyena Poop

Posted February 13, 2009 8:51 AM

From Neatorama:

Paleontologist Lucinda Blackwell and her colleagues at the University of Witwatersrand were digging in Gladysvale cave, South Africa, when they came upon a sensational find.  In the fossilized hyena waste they collected they found the remains of human hair dated 195,000 to 257,000 years ago!  This predates the earliest known sample of human hair by 200,000 years.

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02/13/2009 9:08 AM

Well, that explains it. We were told Uncle Joe had been eaten by a sabre-toothed tiger.
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02/13/2009 2:05 PM

Actually, there was an error in the carbon dating process: The hair really belonged to a lost Voortrekker who was devoured while on his way out of the Cape Colony in 1835.
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02/13/2009 2:06 PM

ROFL

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02/13/2009 11:11 PM

Drnk coffee! Do stupd thngs faster with mor energi!

Lurn to spel also at a faster rate.
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02/14/2009 11:14 AM

"Maybe a name tag saying Lucy or something"

Not Lucy. This shirt was found nearby:
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02/15/2009 2:29 AM

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