A team of geneticists are claiming they have found DNA evidence which proves the existence of a previously unknown mystery species that lived and interbred with the ancestors of modern humans. A species that may have "lingered in Africa" until about 25,000 years ago. Interesting stuff, especially when another team claims to have similar evidence that Neanderthals reached Asia.
Of course, paleoanthropologists are poo-pooing the whole thing because they haven't found any, well, poo-poo in the fossil record that would indicate such a species.
Bow-chick-a-wow-wow!
posted by Prof. Hex at 5:31 PM
Queens Mystery Donor
A man in Queens has donated $900,000 to political campaigns and runs 25 shell companies out of his apartment. Nothing to see here folks, move along.
posted by Prof. Hex at 4:33 PM
Lakota tribe members gather to name rare white bison
I still remember watching Charles Bronson in
The White Buffalo when I was a kid. Bronson played
Wild Bill Hickok (he's completely miscast but come on, it's Charles Bronson) and Will Samson played
Crazy Horse. It's one of those films that has a ton of famous names: Kim Novak, Jack Warden, Clint Walker, Slim Pickens, and John Carradine as an undertaker, the role he was born to play.
Link.
posted by Prof. Hex at 4:11 PM
Monday, July 09, 2012
Students discover Batman's cape gliding technique is fatally flawed
SLAM!
posted by Prof. Hex at 1:45 PM
Ex-CIA agent claims alien bodies at Roswell
"It was not a damn weather balloon -- it was what it was billed when people first reported it," said Chase Brandon, a 35-year CIA veteran.
posted by Prof. Hex at 12:14 PM
Thursday, July 05, 2012
Bath salts make you run around naked, among other things
Police in Arizona are attributing a recent spike in crazy naked men to the use of the designer drug known as
bath salts.
posted by Prof. Hex at 9:00 PM
Al-Qaida linked fighters destroy 'end of the world' gate in Timbuktu