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Stone Age Elephant Remains Found (England, Slain By Humans)
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| 6-21-2004
Posted on 06/21/2004 5:37:15 PM PDT by blam
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To: Kaisersrsic
Stone Age elephant remains found.They aren't sure for how much longer, though.
To: motife
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06/21/2004 6:20:22 PM PDT
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blam
To: rintense
Maybe Bush has some blame, but I'm sure that Reagan's policies were also an issue.
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06/21/2004 6:23:05 PM PDT
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Dimensio
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To: edwin hubble
>>The skeleton was also found with a number of flint tools surrounding it, indicating that it was probably slaughtered by humans.
Ok, how about this: the skeleton is 400k years old, but early people found it dead later. Like those mammoths that cropped up in Siberia, fresh enough to eat. Maybe there was a warm spell 100k years ago and humans spotted these big critters in the ice, then dug into the "freezer" for easy, pre-killed, fast food.
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06/21/2004 6:52:29 PM PDT
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Graymatter
(Let's issue a new $40 bill to honor our 40th president)
To: Sabertooth
The elephant, which has been identified as a straight-tusked Palaeoloxodon antiquus, would have been twice the size of the largest modern African elephant. Could early humans have killed such huge animals with wooden spears and flint tools? It seems hard to believe.
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06/21/2004 7:44:56 PM PDT
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Victoria Delsoul
("In answer to what we promised, the infidel got his fair treatment"Al-Qaeda to wife tearful pleading)
To: blam
Sometimes I also see elephants near railroad stations. Funny, that... ;-)
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06/21/2004 9:07:39 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: Sabertooth
Do you know how you can tell when elephants have been making love in your front yard?
Well, there is garbage all over the place and the trash can liners are missing.
To: Sabertooth
Well, that's a handsome critter. Clearly more related to the Indian than the African.
Can't imagine how you kill one without recourse to gunpowder or even crossbows.
To: Sabertooth
I bet these is mighty good eatin'
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06/24/2004 9:30:09 PM PDT
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Rudder
To: BushMeister
Those are curve-tusked Palaeoloxodon antiquus. Don't you know anything? ;)
To: VadeRetro
I understand that some of the primitive hunters would sneak up and cut a leg tendon or two and jumbo was immobilized.
There is a full (fossil) skeleton of a spoonbill elephant at the Milwaukee museum. The lower jaw is a big long spoon.
To: blam
The elephant, which has been identified as a straight-tusked Palaeoloxodon antiquus, would have been twice the size of the largest modern African elephant. Whoa!
To: Cold Heart
I understand that some of the primitive hunters would sneak up and cut a leg tendon or two and jumbo was immobilized. With a career like that, you don't ask about the retirement plan.
To: blam
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08/09/2006 10:50:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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