[Fred Nerks]

Image of ungulate bones observed in the walls of Cuevita de Huesos. The team found "hundreds of thousands of bones and skulls eroding out of the cave walls." Credit: J. Wynne et al. Advertisement

[Leisler]

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

ungulate bones

Not very specific is it? Are we talking horses, pigs, cattle, goats, deer, camels, or what?

[Ron/GA]

I suspect that cave detection technology would be useful in other places right here on earth... like the western territories of Pakistan for example.

[djf]

Good stuff.

[CHEE]

Shueee! Don’t tell Al Gore. He might want to add this to his slide show:

What Causes Deserts?

Atacama Desert in Chile

One reason is that the high atmospheric pressure in this region over the Andes can cause dry, cold air from the upper altitudes to compress and come down to earth. This dry air has almost no water vapor so it can be easily heated by the sun, causing high ground temperatures with very low humidity.

[aruanan]

"We found hundreds of thousands of bones and skulls eroding out of the cave walls," Wynne wrote in his blog. "So, we’ve renamed this small cave Cuevita de Huesos (or Small Cave of the Bones)."

The researchers had to climb about 13 feet up to find a walkable passage.

"This is where we found all the bones mixed in with tree branches," Wynne wrote.

It's not clear if the animals were dumped into the cave by prehistoric people or if perhaps they were trapped by a flood.

Trapped by a flood or, mixed in with tree branches, the consolidated flotsam of a flood?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Vince Ferrer]

It's not clear if the animals were dumped into the cave by prehistoric people or if perhaps they were trapped by a flood. After all, the expedition is related to figuring out the thermal signatures of Mars caves, and the finding was made just this week.

Maybe they used the cave for drinking water, lived out their lives near the cave, and died there.

[rdl6989]

Ah, that’s just the Montauk Beast.

[misanthrope]

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