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Ancient Humans, Dogs Hunted Mastodon in Florida: Early Dogs Helped Humans Hunt Mammoths
Discovery News ^
| May 13, 2016
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 05/16/2016 2:29:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: piasa
Still ballsy, but not just a sharp stick.Ok you do it.
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posted on
05/16/2016 3:19:07 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
It's easy if you know the right spot.
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posted on
05/16/2016 3:21:02 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: blam
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posted on
05/16/2016 3:21:51 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: PLMerite
I’ve seen a pissed off elephant. I cannot image a pissed off mastodon with a spears stuck in it. Run away!
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posted on
05/16/2016 3:24:51 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: goldstategop
Akita Inu, Alaskan Malamute, Basenji, Chow Chow, Shar Pei, Shiba Inu, and Siberian Husky are the only breeds whose DNA traces fairly directly to the first genetic branch from the Canis Lupus tree that could claim anything close to 14,000 years as a pure breed. Their behavior is quite striking compared to other breeds in that as a rule they care little about human approval, have exceptional intelligence but almost impossible to train to perform tasks (all housebreak very easily and bond quickly to their owner), have a double coat, and tend to behave with pack hierarchy and dominance behaviors very close to wild wolves. Most other breeds, and all hounds, are less than 800 years old, bred for herding and hunting, and in my opinion, have little in common in terms of behavior with the oldest breeds. I have been very close to each of the old breeds during my life, and always felt they were unique and related, but it is only in the last decade that this has been shown scientifically. Below is one of my girls, a Chow Chow.
To: central_va
Here's an old film of Bushmen
hunting a giraffe with poisoned arrows about the size of knitting needles. 3,000 pound, give or take, is a lot less than the speculated weight of a mastodon - maybe 12 tons. Nobody knows how long it took to kill a mastodon with spears, but I wouldn't be surprised if some toxic substance that slowed their reflexes or paralyzed muscles near a spear wound was part of the process.
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posted on
05/16/2016 6:27:25 PM PDT
by
kitchen
(If you are a luthier please ping me.)
To: RegulatorCountry
Dire Wolf is an actual scientific name? And here I thought it was something made up by Game Of Thrones."Dire Wolf" was an ancient and now extinct much larger version of today's wolves.
To: central_va
Ive seen a pissed off elephant. I cannot image a pissed off mastodon with a spears stuck in it. Run away!Elephants are intelligent amazing powerful creatures; if they came trunk to trunk with their forebears the Mastodons, the elephants would bail out of pure common sense.
To: Cowboy Bob
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posted on
05/17/2016 6:08:39 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: central_va
Sure, but the *real* men didn't even *use* a sharpened stick. ;') I don't think it's an accident that remains are found in sinkholes -- my wild guess is, the same strategy was used as was used later at Heads-Smashed-In in Canada.
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posted on
05/17/2016 10:21:34 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
To: SoCal Pubbie
Mastodon to Elephant to Mammoth
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posted on
05/17/2016 11:55:56 AM PDT
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houeto
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To: houeto
There were several species of mammoths besides the Columbian that the illustration seems to show. The much furrier woolly mammoth is most well known, but much smaller species also existed. Pygmy mammoths lived on the Channel Islands off the California coast and only grew to about six feet at the shoulders. There was also a dwarf species of the woolly variety on I think Wrangel Island.
To: SoCal Pubbie; SunkenCiv; All
Mastadons tend to be earlier than mammoths, but perhaps their dig was deep enough to encompass thousands of years of animal remains.
To: SunkenCiv
Had to be Labs
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posted on
05/19/2016 2:39:20 AM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: LambSlave
Mastodon bones. Yum. I'll share
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posted on
05/19/2016 2:42:41 AM PDT
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Daffynition
("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: Daffynition
I was on the corner of Dale Mabry and Kennedy Blvd. in Tampa.
A truck was stopped at the light. As it took off a 55 gallon barrel fell off the back spilling the barrels load of large Beef bones all over the intersection.
A German Shepard came out from one of the Chevron work bays and fetched a very large bone and took it back to the bay.
Then he surprised me by coming out three more time to fetch more bones taking each back to the bay.
Good puppy.
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posted on
05/19/2016 2:57:22 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(500 years ago we had Shakesphere, obammys people live in mud huts still. Go figure)
To: Joe Boucher
The things you see in Tampa!
Is the topless car wash still in business?
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posted on
05/19/2016 1:54:48 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
("We have the fight of our lives coming up to save our nation!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: Daffynition
No idea about that one but i have heard of a topless donut drive thru.
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posted on
05/19/2016 2:29:28 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(500 years ago we had Shakesphere, obammys people live in mud huts still. Go figure)
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