Big Bird Found!

[Scylla]

Is it just me or does it seem that bones found in caves with hominid remains usually mean the humans were eating the other animals?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9261000/9261713.stm

[Guest N.AL.hunter]

Unless you find butcher marks on the bones (or bones broken for their marrow), then it could be that the animal was eating the human. I can just see the seen now using the old stop action film technique and clay figures of the giant storks attaching the little "hobbits".

[Auspex]

Storks will eat anything that they can swallow whole (and this can include things bigger than their head), but I think that even an infant pygmy would be a stretch (literally).

[palaeopix]

That's one Big Bird or one Small Human! OK, it's both!!

I wonder how small H. floresiensis infants really were and if it was possible for giant storks to prey on them?

And I was under the impression that the storks brought the babies not ate them!!

Edited December 10, 2010 by palaeopix

[Auspex]

...I was under the impression that the storks brought the babies not ate them!!

You'd think that these highly educated scientists would know that; it's like, duh!