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Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Hyenas Hoarded Thousands of Human, Animal Bones in Saudi Arabian Lava Tube

Archaeologists in northwestern Saudi Arabia have unearthed a massive collection of bones likely stockpiled by striped hyenas over the past 7,000 years.

Found in the Umm Jirsan lava tube system—a sprawling network of tunnels formed by volcanic activity—the hundreds of thousands of bones belong to at least 14 kinds of animals, including cattle, caprids, horses, camels, rodents and even humans. The researchers’ findings are newly published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.
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  1. ABEAugust 10, 2021 at 3:25 PM

    I hate Hyenas almost as much as I hate Kangaroos... Cool story though.

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