[quote]Scientists digging around an ancient Neanderthal campfire site in Spain called El Salt stumbled upon what they believe to be the oldest human poop. Other than the poop being 50,000-years-old, analysis of the feces, as published this week in the scientific journal PLOS One, indicates that Neanderthals may have enjoyed an omnivorous diet, contrary to previous thought that they exclusively dined on meat.[/quote]
[quote]If the discovery is truly a prehistoric latrine – a claim that has provoked skepticism among other researchers – it contradicts the pop-culture image of Neanderthals as hunters who subsisted on hunks of flesh. Two of the new poop samples contain the chemical footprints of both meat and plant consumption, providing the earliest known evidence that humans were omnivores who ate significant quantities of plant-based food.[/quote]
[quote]Other researchers call the new study intriguing but far from airtight. The compounds measured by Sistiaga and her colleagues have probably degraded over time, making them unreliable as indicators of human feces, says Michael Richards of the University of British Columbia. The study does not rule out bears, which are also omnivorous, as the source of the coprolites, says Hervé Bocherens of the University of Tübingen in Germany.[/quote]
Of course Gawker isn't great for legitimate news but this was solid enough for me to feel like it was worth posting. ALMOST as solid as these old poops.
[url]http://gawker.com/the-worlds-oldest-human-poop-may-have-been-discovered-i-1596133484[/url]
This is a shit pun.
What a load of crap they've dug up. :v:
Shit.
Can't wait to see the log that gets published out of this.
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