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Who would throw something like that away?!

[The Red Zone]

Yeah??? Obviously a Neanderthal pitched it.

[Tax-chick]

Or it could be a missing politician from the Civil War era.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[USConstitutionBuff]

Any pictures?

[counterpunch]

Must be the victim of a Miocene mob hit.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Og Hoffa.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Yet another missing link.

[ASA Vet]

ping

[babygene]

I don't think you would be able to tell from bones if an animal were human. There is that little thing called a soul.

He!!, if you found Islamic bones, you might think THEY were human...

[Stentor]

I think we have El Piltdown man.

[ConservativeBamaFan]

Palaeontologists excavating a dump outside Barcelona have found . . . dumpster-diving man, the evolutionary fore-runner of the homeless.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Though tests show the skull was from a male, fossilized impressions of a tight fitting skirt were apparent on nearby skeletal remains. In light of recent discoveries of cave paintings depicting rainbow colored flags, this specimen has been dubbed The Missing Kink.

[wallcrawlr]

may belong to a previously unknown species of great ape,

Oh, I thought it said...grape ape.

[z3n]

Why is it that every time someone finds a skull and dates it, they automatically think they know from the estimated age weather it is some link in some genus (or between them), rather than a dead end branch (which is much more likely) or incidental offshoot?

[MineralMan]

"Since then, scientists from the Miquel Crusafont Institute of Palaeontology in Sabadell have unearthed nearly 12,000 fossils of primates and other animals that lived during the Middle Miocene era - between 14m and 8m years ago - when the area was covered by tropical rainforest and populated by the precursors of today's elephants, antelopes and monkeys."

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This appears to be a very rich find of Middle Miocene fossils. There's much to be learned from it, I expect. Of course, it will take years of research to come up with any firm conclusions.

[Busywhiskers]

My response to this is to cite the dismal record of so-called missing links:

Nebraska man
Java man
Piltdown man
Orce man

Based on past "scientific" discoveries this on will likely end up being the skull of a ten year old three toes sloth.

[Junior]

Ping.

[Publius6961]

Who would throw something like that away?!

No no no. You've got to interpolate incompetent reporting.
This "dump" is apparently a cut and cover operation, where pits are dug, garbage spread and compacted, and then filled with thin layes of original soil.

Digging the large pits to begin the process is where the skull and other artifacts were discovered.
Sort of like randomly picking a spot do dig a large deep hole, and discovering unexpected prizes.

[wardaddy]

Damn....I thought I was like Ethiopian mon!

or Eritrean at least.

now, I'm told I came from some Spanish garbage dump.

i'm starting to get negative about this origins of man stuff I'm telling ya

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

Quick...hurry... put a picture of in the next run of the science text books and teach it as FACT.

Evilution Theology bump.