Posted on 07/06/2006 12:43:11 PM PDT by blam
Short-faced Bear, largest that ever lived, I wonder if the mammoth was on the menu?
http://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/shrtbear.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3011.shtml
This link shows a size comparison with grizzly and polar:
http://www.tarpits.org/education/guide/flora/bear.html
Cave Lion (and cave bear, among other things):
http://archserve.id.ucsb.edu/Anth3/Courseware/Pleistocene/6_Bestiary.html#Cave_Lion
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An Inconvenient Truth: about the Ice Age.
Then of course, there's Mr. Snuffleupagus.
By the way, last year I also heard that Siberia once had giant hyenas, and they might have kept people out until they domesticated dogs.
You know, I have alot of trouble with the human predation of mammals stuff, and here's why.
We all know that the American indians hunted the buffalo. And we hear the stories about the indians being very economical and using every piece of the buffalo they could get. These legends have been elevated to an almost holy status.
But estimates tell us that during what they think was the peak, over SIXTY MILLION BUFFALO roamed the plains. And the indians, no matter what they could do, would hardly be able to make the slightest dent in the buffalo herds, no matter what they tried.
The buffalo were not threatened until two things arrived in North America.
Horses and firearms.
So no doubt early man hunted mammoth. But I'm inclinedto think that coming home with a mammoth on the hood of their car was a pretty darn rare event.
There is an exception to every rule.
Wow. Tatooed Lederhosen.
I had never heard of the selknam, so looked them up. The articles on the Inet say that they lived pretty far away from the Equator.
"On that note, I have a friend that has a site on his property in Central Texas that has found ivory utensils, and they are barely calcified. He's also found parts of Spanish armor, and other oddities that don't belong anywhere around there.
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Red hair, pink hair, blue hair -- any time you start seeing large, hairy elephants in holes in the ground, it's time to knock off the vodka. ;')
That or maybe Algore's personality.
"the color of one's skin is inversely proportional to the distance...from the equator."
Your right, it is no accident. Vitamin D is created in the oils on the skin and absorbed into the body where it is essential for bone formation, and perhaps antidepressive effects. Women deficient in Vitamin E form norrow pelvic girdles, which make childbirth difficult. A person suffering from Rickets (Vitamin D deficiency) will have thick wrists and a bulging skull. Thus the entusiasm for blond women and graceful wrists. This mutation away from the heavy melanism of the tropics probably made it possible for homo sapiens to migrate into ice age Europe, and sucessfully bear young.
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
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