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[Its Cousin]

I have a paleo-related sub on Reddit and someone posted this looking for an ID.

 

It was found on a beach near Cancun.

 

 

 

There's only a few critters that have teeth with 3 roots like that. They are all primates.

[Mr. Roboto]

Wow, cool. 

[Its Cousin]

It's happened, again. A guy had travertine installed in his house. He noticed this fossil and was asking for an ID/confirmation. Several dentists and forensic anthropologists showed to let him know it is a human mandible. Turn out the travertine is from Turkey, and it's an important fossil... early human. Researchers have reached out to him.

 

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[Its Cousin]

Wow! This one is starting to get international attention. Looks like USA Today is picking up the story, and several researchers have chimed in, including some world renown hominid guys. It appears that it is 1.1 million year old Homo erectus.

[freedom78]

It's happened, again. A guy had travertine installed in his house. He noticed this fossil and was asking for an ID/confirmation. Several dentists and forensic anthropologists showed to let him know it is a human mandible. Turn out the travertine is from Turkey, and it's an important fossil... early human. Researchers have reached out to him.

So...Indian Burial Ground; Variations on a Theme?

 

It'd be just my luck that my home improvement project would turn into a dig.  Sorry sir, but you can't use your kitchen...FOR SCIENCE!

[Its Cousin]

^^^The post is getting a lot of attention. There have already been several news articles written about it, and there are some reporters in the thread, so I'm going to delete the image. I don't want it to come up in a image search and tracked to me here.

[Its Cousin]

Bizarre ramblings of the fuckwit that immolated himself outside the Trump trial yesterday. All of his comments have been deleted(his profile is there, though), but here's an /r/conspiracy thread from a few months ago.

 

https://archive.is/2..._world_why_our/

[Its Cousin]

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[Its Cousin]

The story still has steam. Smithsonian and the Atlantic picked it up in the last couple of days. The sub usually sees 70k-80k views/day. This post brought in about 15X that number.