Posted on 05/11/2009 3:48:27 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
The oldest known human hair belonged to a 9,000-year-old mummy disinterred from an ancient Chilean cemetery.
Until now: a recent discovery pushes the record back some 200,000 years. (And the newly discovered strands received a rather less dignified burial.)
While excavating in Gladysvale Cave, near Johannesburg, South Africa, a team of researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand discovered an ancient brown-hyena latrine. Upon inspection, hyena coprolites - fossilized dung - appeared to contain uncannily hair-like structures.
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Apartheid’s fault.
Hair-like structures?
Holy ossified offal Batman! Don’t let G Cube hear about this!
Beware the Luddites!
wow..and just when I was about to hate my job..
I wonder if they can sequence DNA from it?
Ha. Ain't that the truth.
Any chance we could clone the hyena and swap it for Obie’s new dog?
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