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Prehistoric Art Found to Contain Stenciled Lizard Hands
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoMaybe the lizard people were painting the art?
- tikumo 11y agoI, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords.
- JetSpiegel 11y agoThe truth is out there.
- petecox 11y agoProbably the Silurians.
- nefitty 11y agoNon-clickbait link title: Prehistoric Art Found to Contain Monitor Lizard Hand-Stencils
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- markatkinson 11y agoHaha.. sheesh man, it is super sad when a "science" site uses such a blatant clickbait title. Shame on them.
- dang 11y agoThanks, updated.
- madaxe_again 11y agoThat entire process described seems rather bizarre - as just glancing at that image I can see that those are lizard feet stencils - and the fact that she had the brainwave after visiting an crocodile farm underlines how clear they are. I wonder how many research opportunities are missed because scientists hoard information that is mysterious to them but obvious to others. I suppose it's the broken publication system that drives this behaviour.
- rubidium 11y agoEven if you walk into a cave and say "that's a lizard hand", in the academic world you need to give some proof. Thus resorting to statistical analysis to confirm. However, your comment made me ask the question "what if we had a website that was a super-hi-res tour of the cave that we all could look at". I'm suprised something like that doesn't exist. Best thing out there seems to be a book with images of all 8000 characters: http://www.fjexpeditions.com/frameset/beasts.htm http://www.fjexpeditions.com/frameset/beasts.htm Edit: to address the silly comments on this thread, the lizards were likely dead (not sentient) and the people grabbed them to use as stencils.
- duaneb 11y agoWell, I'm sure future people will figure out if it's obvious to madaxe_again and skip the tedious process of hypothesis and argument.
- madaxe_again 11y agoMy point was rather that she went depth-first (i.e. let's exhaustively study baby hands) rather than breadth first, due to her specific domain of knowledge. Had the material been shared with a broader audience of her peers, perhaps it would have saved rather a bit of time and effort.
- puranjay 11y agoOf all the animals in the world, it had to be a lizard. This is going to fuel about 2 more years of InfoWars.com speculation on the lizard people
- ashurbanipal 11y agoinhabitants of Lovecraft's Nameless City
- rbanffy 11y agoTiny lizard hands? Trump?!
- anon4 11y agoDrumpf
- codingdave 11y agoSometimes I think people need to spend more time outdoors. Because before even reading the article, I took one look at the pictures, and thought, "Oh, ok, animal tracks."
- kelvin0 11y agoI just hope the new and 'improved' X files show, won't try to take this subject as an opportunity to make yet another dubious episode ... Seriously though, could simply be a deformed human hand.
- skykooler 11y ago"It's unclear why the ancient people at Wadi Sūra II used reptile hands as stencils, but Honoré said she's working on a tumblr post that analyzes possible reasons." ...Tumblr is now where scientific articles get published?
- pvaldes 11y agoFlintstones. Meet the Flintstones. They're the modern stone age family...