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    500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children

    34,000-Year-Old Twine Woven by Ancient Humans Discovered

    Were Prehistoric Britons Cannibals?

    Neanderthals Far Lonelier Than Previously Believed

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    Image of Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L. Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.
    09/12/09

    In reply to 500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
    Now we know why there are no sheep on their farms...
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    09/14/09

    @Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: +1 for the Blam's
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    09/12/09

    In reply to 500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
    On the bright side, it kept the Maori children from sitting on the couch playing PlayStation 3, eating corn dogs all day and becoming fat and stupid...
    Well, the evolutionarily significant ones, at least.
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    09/12/09

    @Trai_Dep: Now we know why the Maori are a sturdy folk. They had to bulk up young to survive giant eagle attacks! Small, wimpy Maori died as kids.

    Ancient Maori mom: "Clean your plate! You're so skinny you'll get taken away by the pouakai!"
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/12/09

    In reply to 500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
    Im sure they helped out in Lord of the Rings...but not like this!!!!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/11/09

    In reply to 500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
    Haha. That's hilarious. Somehow saying "the myth of giant birds attacking people may have started when this giant bird attacked people" seems hilarious.

    Shouldn't they have at least added some lightning to it? Or eight heads or something? I mean... Put a little EFFORT into the theatrics here, ancient Maori people...
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    09/12/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Do you know how big one of those birds are?

    For reference the other bird in the picture is called a Moa and they stand about 8 to 9 feet tall.

    The Haast's eagle had a wing span of about 6 to 7 feet and razor sharp claws. You wouldn't need 8 eight heads with somethings that big!
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    09/12/09

    @ZhannTk: You make the Pope's point there. The idea is that, if there really were gigantic birds eating people, then it isn't really a myth.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/12/09

    @ZhannTk:
    -"Well, this bird is pretty scary. Let's make it into a legendary creature of myth."
    -"Sure, okay so the bird's wingspan is 7 feet."
    -"Sure that's great. So let's make it bigger. And maybe add flames. So a giant flaming hell bird? That fucking rules."
    -"No."
    -"No?"
    -"No! The bird is 7 feet across. And it's not on fire. It's 7 feet across at most. You have to be accurate."
    -"uh, but it's a myth. Let's just go all out and make it rule. Let's have it grasping the sun in it's beak!"
    -"No. There's no way it can do that. It's seven feet across and it cannot grasp the sun. It can grasp small to medium sized prey."
    -"This myth sucks."
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    09/11/09

    In reply to 500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
    Most old beast legends have at least some bit of truth to them. Fossils, ancient extinct animals, all start real and then become legend...
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    Image of Allen_Richards Allen_Richards
    09/11/09

    In reply to 500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
    So you're sayin' Lord of the Rings got that shit right? Call me the Monkey's Uncle...
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    09/11/09

    @Allen_Richards: In New Zealand too. This can't be a coincidence.
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    09/11/09

    @RandomFrequentFlierDent: Who knew Jackson was a Future Historian???
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    09/11/09

    In reply to 500 Years Ago, A Giant Eagle In New Zealand Was Possibly Eating Children
    Coming to Syfy in 5,4,3...
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    Image of Andy Neil Andy Neil
    09/11/09

    @syafiqjabar of Mars: Scyfi Exec: Let's give it a snappy title. Something like...Giant Eagle: Legend of the Pouakai! Someone see if Marc Singer and Ian Ziering are available.
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    Image of Guitaratomik Guitaratomik
    09/11/09

    @syafiqjabar of Mars: If I could promote comments, I'd promote this one.
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    09/11/09

    @Guitaratomik: i like to use my minimal powers!
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    Image of allium allium
    09/11/09

    @syafiqjabar of Mars:

    Peta Wilson...
    (cut to her looking bedraggled and concerned)

    ...and Robert Picardo...
    (cut to him looking professorial and concerned)

    ...in a SyFy channel original movie...
    (cut to CGI Haast's Eagle eating someone)

    ...Murderbird! Saturday night at 8, only on SyFy. Imagine greater.

    (cut to commercial for Scorpion King 3 DTV DVD)
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    Image of Jeriba Jeriba
    09/11/09

    @allium: There has to be a way to tie this in with the Sharktopus franchise.

    Murderbird vs. Sharktopus: Eat or Be Eaten
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    Image of syafiqjabar of Mars syafiqjabar of Mars
    09/11/09

    @allium: That settles it, let's all work at Syfy making cheap-looking monster movies. It couldn't be that hard. With my Bachelor in Science and Master in Wolrd Literature, I'm practically overqualified.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    09/12/09

    @syafiqjabar of Mars: hell with a GED you'd be overqualified! i'm convinced all you need is to 'know a guy' and be willing to make frequent coke runs
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    Image of Dr Emilio Lizardo Dr Emilio Lizardo
    09/10/09

    In reply to 34,000-Year-Old Twine Woven by Ancient Humans Discovered
    They occupied the cave for thousands of years? I've heard my Georgia relatives say "I's a born her, I's a gonna dies here," but this is ridiculous!
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    09/10/09

    In reply to 34,000-Year-Old Twine Woven by Ancient Humans Discovered
    Thus proving the prehistoric origin of those annoying hemp friendship bracelets.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    09/10/09

    In reply to 34,000-Year-Old Twine Woven by Ancient Humans Discovered
    But the Bible told me that God created the first snappy human ensemble 3,000 years ago! I learned that in Science.
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    09/10/09

    @Alexis Brown: Who needs clothing when you have pet dinosaurs to curl up with at night to stay warm?
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    08/09/09

    In reply to Were Prehistoric Britons Cannibals?
    There are two kinds of cannibalism: opportunistic and ritualistic. The first involves, say, the Donner Party, starving to death, resorting to cannibalism in order to survive. The second, ritualistic, involves the regular consumption of human flesh. Some tribes do it to honor their dead, some to conquer their enemy's spirits, some just out of a kind of thriftiness.
    These british sites don't necessarily show ritualistic cannibalism, as those usually have a large quantity of human remains showing toolmarks at one spot (the trash heap / cemetary). In these cases, it seems these may have been isolated events. On the other hand, "delicate cut marks" implies a level of expertise and a lack of desperation one would expect to see in a case of starvation.
    Also...
    There are two kinds of cannibalism: endocannibalism and exocannibalism. The first involves eating your own dead (your family or community members), the second involves eating another communities dead (often after battle).
    Also...
    There are two kinds of cannibalism: killing for food ("I'm hungry - nice thighs!" *stab*) and eating the already deceased ("Hmmm... Harold is getting ripe - it'd be a shame if he went to waste! *munch*").
    Also...
    There are two kinds of cannibalism: Barbecue and Stew.
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    08/09/09

    @nagumi: I want some kebab.
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    08/09/09

    @nagumi: Vacationing in Austria in 2006 we regularly passed a place called DonnerKebab...
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    Image of Stueymon Stueymon
    08/09/09

    In reply to Were Prehistoric Britons Cannibals?
    just us brits being pragmatic. We ate the dead as a handy source of food when times were tough. We did it back then, we did it in the war and we'll do it again! (that may be a lie)
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/09/09

    In reply to Were Prehistoric Britons Cannibals?
    no big thing here.what you think primitive man ate when there was no meat to be found ????
    hhhmmm mmm good it is time for a people steak.
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    08/09/09

    In reply to Were Prehistoric Britons Cannibals?
    Note to self: RSVP "No" to McMillan party.
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    Image of Rasselas Rasselas
    08/09/09

    In reply to Were Prehistoric Britons Cannibals?
    Cannibalism runs through our modern obsessions like a dirty thread: vampires, zombies, enviro-political apocalypse reducing humanity to subsistence predation, diet books making people crazy about animal fat and the fat in their own bodies as though the two were identical.
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