It's a Skull, But What Kind?
But how did it get to be buried 5 feet deep in Dallas?
A plumber working on a construction project outside a North Dallas school unearthed a mysterious skull.Via Cryptomundo, which offers photos of various other primate skulls for comparison. Doesn't look anything like a chimp skull to me. I think it looks more baboonish.
Experts will determine the age of this primate skull found at a construction site.
A worker uncovered a primate skull in the muck at a North Dallas construction site.
“We all know it’s a primate,” said David Evans, 25, of Alvarado. “We just don’t know which kind.”
The skull was buried about five feet underground, he said. It’s six inches from front to back and two inches wide.
Most of the teeth, including one-inch canines, are intact.
Evans said the skull was discovered last week at the St. Alcuin Montessori School near Churchill Way and Preston Road.
A noted anthropologist for the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s office, Dr. Dana Austin, viewed photographs of the skull and said it was definitely an “old-world primate,” possibly a monkey or chimp.
But how did it get to be buried 5 feet deep in Dallas?
Looks a lot like like a baboon except the canines are farther forward and the brow is flatter than the examples I saw.
ReplyDeleteI bet it was someone's pet.
"How did it get to be buried 5 feet deep in Dallas?"
ReplyDeleteSame reason there's a dozen or so 6.5 Carcano shell casings lightly buried up on the Grassy Knoll in Dallas. Someone with a twisted sense of humor and too much time on his hands knew there would be an uproar when they're found.
Not that I know anything about that...
"It’s six inches from front to back and two inches wide.
ReplyDeleteMost of the teeth, including one-inch canines, are intact."
Are you missing any Democratic congressmen down there, by any chance?