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Take a closer look at roadkill the next few times you see it. You'll often notice the eyes, tongue, etc are missing. Sometimes the corpse will look like a ske

Take a closer look at roadkill the next few times you see it. You'll often notice the eyes, tongue, etc are missing. Sometimes the corpse will look like a skeleton with skin but no organs. These are circumstances commonly attributed to aliens or cuppracabra attacking cattle. However it's very common in roadkill when you start to look for it. It's pretty mundane, though I understand some people will find it startling the first time they see or hear of it.

garmaine 6y ago
When George Mallory was found on Everest, scavengers had eaten his internal organs from one hole in his (frozen) skin. He was like a human-shaped shell.
- detaro 6y ago
  What scavengers would that be? No small animal capable of doing that is known to be able to survive at that height. small number of birds can fly that high, that's about it.
  - garmaine 6y ago
    The lammergeyer, a sort of high-altitude vulture. They're known to eat the dead on Everest.
    - matkoniecz 6y ago
      > They even have been observed living at altitudes of 7,500 m (24,600 ft) on Mount Everest > The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists almost exclusively (70 to 90 percent) of bone. > The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture
      - retrac 6y ago
        > ossifrage the bone-breaker Appropriate.
      - kens 6y ago
        "ossifrage" is interesting to see in a sentence because the word appeared in a famous 1977 RSA cryptographic challenge with the solution "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage". The challenge appeared in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column and took 17 years to break. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamish_Ossifrage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamis...
wirrbel 6y ago
The „conspiracy theorists“ often seem to dismiss multi-factor explanations. When in fact they may be rare when you calculate for a single event, but if you consider how many events are happening across the globe it’s just not that improbable that a medial sensation was in fact the result of an - individually unlikely - chain of events
astrea 6y ago
Or maybe chupacabra attacks are more common than you think and you just think it's roadkill ;)

garmaine 6y ago

When George Mallory was found on Everest, scavengers had eaten his internal organs from one hole in his (frozen) skin. He was like a human-shaped shell.

detaro 6y ago
What scavengers would that be? No small animal capable of doing that is known to be able to survive at that height. small number of birds can fly that high, that's about it.
- garmaine 6y ago
  The lammergeyer, a sort of high-altitude vulture. They're known to eat the dead on Everest.
  - matkoniecz 6y ago
    > They even have been observed living at altitudes of 7,500 m (24,600 ft) on Mount Everest > The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists almost exclusively (70 to 90 percent) of bone. > The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture
    - retrac 6y ago
      > ossifrage the bone-breaker Appropriate.
    - kens 6y ago
      "ossifrage" is interesting to see in a sentence because the word appeared in a famous 1977 RSA cryptographic challenge with the solution "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage". The challenge appeared in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column and took 17 years to break. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamish_Ossifrage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamis...

wirrbel 6y ago

The „conspiracy theorists“ often seem to dismiss multi-factor explanations. When in fact they may be rare when you calculate for a single event, but if you consider how many events are happening across the globe it’s just not that improbable that a medial sensation was in fact the result of an - individually unlikely - chain of events

astrea 6y ago

Or maybe chupacabra attacks are more common than you think and you just think it's roadkill ;)