Ancient eggshell opens crack into garden of Eden in the Northern Cape

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New evidence from an ancient ostrich eggshell shows that between 250,000 and 350,000 years ago the Nama Karoo was a 'Garden of Eden' covered in lush grazing and wetlands.

The new research supports evidence from fossilised animal bones that past communities in the region lived alongside creatures far removed from the odd steenbok, rabbit, hare, aardvark, porcupine and jackal the landscape now supports. They hunted alongside lions and hyenas for wildebeest, zebra, small antelope, hippos, baboons and extinct species of Megalotragus priscus and Cape giant zebra (Equus capensis.

This process of changing wet and dry climates is recognised as driving the turnover and evolution of species, including Homo sapiens., shows that extracting isotopic data from ostrich eggshell is a viable option for open-air sites more than 200,000 years old. Ostriches eat the freshest leaves of shrubs and grasses in their environment, which means shell composition reflects their diet.As eggs are laid in the breeding season across a short window, the information found in eggshell provides a picture of the prevailing environment and climate for a precise period in time.

 

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You taking pure rubbish

Maybe king Mônada can explain better

20 years from now there will be another new evidence

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