Flightless Sea Duck – Not Tasty?
The extinction of so many species during the great global cataclysm of 10-12,000 years ago has regularly been put down to lots of hunting, by orthodox science. Supposedly humans crossed the Bering Strait, worked their way south through the Americas, and killed most of the living things they came across. Until now the best argument from fringe science has been the sheer numbers of animals that perished, far more than the estimated numbers of humans could have found time to kill, let alone eat. Here’s the icing on the cake:
[Scientists have] demonstrated that humans first hunted the flightless sea duck (Chendytes lawi) more than 10,000 years ago, but the bird persisted until about 2,400 years ago. Their findings that Chendytes survived more than 7,500 years of human predation are based on the first radiocarbon dating of Chendytes bones from six coastal archaeological sites.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080317150150.htm
I’m not a hunter, I’d sooner eat grass. But if pushed, I’d rather hunt a duck that can’t fly, than a sabre-toothed tiger!
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