New Hominid Genus Found in Europe! ! !

[gamoonbat]

With a hat tip to Greg Laden, I am very excited to relate that scientists working on a remote island off the coast of Ireland have unearthed the first significant hominid in Europe in decades. In sediments believed to have been preserved by unusual glacial processes from prior to the last two ice ages, perhaps as much as 350,000 years in age,

Comments

[artricia]

You had me going there . . .

[jackshoegazer]

Ditto, that was excellent. You should repost that to thelunarsociety.

[gamoonbat]

The buzzer went off for me when they went into that gaping hole and found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. I was all prepared to write a post criticizing the stratigraphic context, though, until I saw the hat.

[artricia]

It was the hat itself that did it for me, although when I saw the "Trifolium," I thought, "Shamrocks? What a coincidence."

[gyttja]

I think it is telling that I was more interested in the "unusual glacial processes."

[gamoonbat]

Are there any usual glacial processes?