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• Pipefish males kill their own kids for nutrients

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 9 (ANI): In the world of pipefish, the males take care of the offspring and at one point go to the extent of eating them up for their own nutrition, a new study has found.And now, the discovery of filial cannibalism in the pipefish, which is related to the seahorse, is creating a [...]
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• A 25 Year Old Man, Killed and Eaten in Russia

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 533
  A 25-year-old Russian man was recently found killed by three men who cut him to small pieces and ate some of his parts. The amazing thing about this crime was that they even made a mint of his flesh and sold some to a nearby kiosk dealing in kebabs and pies. The Russian police later arrested the culprits and are now ...
  12 hours ago

• Polar Bear Cannibal

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 147
  These pictures are pretty gruesome , and this is one of those “can’t unsee” situations; but, I’ve seen them and they are no worse than anything you haven’t seen already in a nature documentary or Faces of Death or your average Hollywood blockbuster. “Some pictures need little introduction. They stop ...
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• More Evidence Points to Neolithic Cannibalism

  
  Ancient Tides — Authority: 111
  Some of the 7,000-year-old skeletal remains unearthed at Herxheim. Archaeologists say evidence points to Neolithic cannibalism in a settlement in southern Germany some 7,000 years ago. Over a period of decades, skeletal remains indicate hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were ...
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• Possible Neolithic cannibalism in Germany

  
  Mathilda's Anthropology Blog. — Authority: 117
  This one  is all over the news today. At a site dating to 7,000 BP in Herxheim, Germany, they have found human remains that seem to bear the signs of being butchered for meat. While this isn’t pleasant, it’s not exactly unheard of from many locations around the world. But the scale, about 500 victims- possibly up ...
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• Polar Bears Eating Their Young

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 526
  Not many people realize that the land of the polar bear is not land at all. They live in a world that is mostly ice. They need the ice covering the northern extremes to reach their feeding grounds. No ice they cannot reach their food source, seals. The small areas of land where they do live, Northern Canada and ...
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• Female fish use test-eggs to gauge the parenting skills of prospective fathers

  
  Fish and aquatic news — Authority: 120
  Female scissortail sergants allow potential mates to fertilize a small batch off eggs and then monitor their parenting skills to decide if they are good enough to deserve a full clutch. When studying filial cannibalism* in scissortail sergeants, ecologist Andrea Manica** of the University of Cambridge ...
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• Was Europe Occupied by Cannibals 7,000 Years Ago?

  
  80beats — Authority: 638
  Human remains found at a 7,000-year-old burial site in southwest Germany have markings similar to those found on animals that have been spit-roasted. According to lead researcher Bruno Boulestin, these markings are signs of cannibalism . The team also found cuts suggestive of meat being scraped from the bones, and ...
  2 days ago

• Eat or be eaten: cannibalism in Neolithic Europe

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 628
  Jodie Shupac, National Post A report published this month in the archaeology journal, Antiquity finds evidence of mass cannibalism in central Europe during the early Neolithic period (roughly between 7000 BC and 1700 BC). Archaeologists found hundreds...( read more )
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• Unborn Babies on the Menu 7,000 Years Ago

  
  InfoAddict — Authority: 135
  A group of German Archaeologists have discovered a gruesome find in south-west Germany. Bones dating back 7,000 years reveal cannibalism was running rampant at about the same time as the first phase of European farming was collapsing. Marks on bones show that bodies were skinned and had their flesh removed using ...
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• Long Before They Were Nazis, Germans Were Cannibals

  
  The Awl — Authority: 780
  “We see patterns on the bones of animals indicating that they have been spit-roasted,” said archeologist Bruno Boulestin, of a 7,000-year-old mass burial site discovered near the southern German town of Herxheim . “We have seen some of these same patterns on the human bones.”
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• Agendas

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 126
  Random animal picture. Many Americans at one time or another were taught in public school a little bit about "how a bill becomes law." The textbook version leaves out a lot of the chaos, messiness and such. As a bit of a policy wonk, I find this kind of thing fascinating, but the subject really matters to lots of ...
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• New Book Challenges History of the Old West

  
  eReleases Press Release Headlines — Authority: 549
  
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• Ancient site reveals signs of mass cannibalism

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 167
  Archaeologists have found evidence of mass cannibalism at a 7,000-year-old human burial site in south-west Germany, the journal Antiquity reports.
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• Female fish assess potential partners with ‘test’ eggs

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  London, Dec 5 (ANI): Female scissortail sergeants gauge potential mates with a small batch of ‘test’ eggs before breeding with them, according to an ecologist.Males may fail as fathers for a number of reasons-they may be unable to defend eggs when left in their care, for example, or even decide that the eggs would ...
  4 days ago

• German village settlement provides hints of mass cannibalism 7,000 years ago

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, December 5 (ANI): A new study has said that an ancient settlement site in a village in Germany is providing hints of mass cannibalism prevalent at the area 7,000 years ago.According to a report in Discovery News, anthropologist Bruno Boulestin of the University of Bordeaux in France and his colleagues ...
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• Controversial Signs of Mass Cannibalism

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 754
  At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests. Cannibalism at the village, now called Herxheim, may have ...
  5 days ago

• Christmas and the cuddly Jesus!

  
  The Squid Zone — Authority: 113
  With Christmas coming up, I thought Id get my regular Christmas post out of the way early. As you should be aware, Christmas is the Christian feast celebrating the birth of their saviour, Jesus of Nazareth. It was not intended as a Bacchanalian celebration of Hedonism, excessive spending, false sincerity, boozing, and ...
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• Thursday 2

  
  Gerry Canavan — Authority: 484
  * Why Dollhouse failed : an interview with Joss Whedon. “The problems that the show encountered weren’t standalone versus mythology [episodes],” Whedon said. “Basically, the show didn’t really get off the ground because the network pretty much wanted to back away from the concept five minutes after they ...
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• "Soggy Pork": The Other White Meat

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 690
  “Fifty years hence, we shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.” Winston Churchill made that prediction in 1932 and now, some 78 years later, it’s beginning to come true. Scientists in Holland have taken ...
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