Old and older

“Here kitty, Cosmos- A jawbone that was found in a trawler net in the North Sea in 2000 and identified by shape two years later as belonging to a sabre-toothed cat. The fossil was dated to 28,000 years before present. Doubts lingered about the identification of the genus – mainly because other Homotherium fossils were much, much older, suggesting that the big cats vanished perhaps 300,000 years ago. The University of Potsdam has confirmed the identification and the date of the jawbone, establishing that the extinction of sabre-toothed cats, at least in Europe, was much more recent than previously thought.”

http://www.woodpilereport.com/


“Lucy's older sister, Ancient Origins - Archaeologists have made a discovery so sensational that they have waited 1 year to announce it as they had to be sure they had the dating correct. A set of teeth belonging to an early hominin species has been found in Germany that dates back 9.7 million years. The teeth are believed to belong to a species that is most similar to the famous ‘Lucy’, one of the first known relatives of humans, only known before to have existed in Africa some 4 million years later. Could this finding be another nail in the coffin for the out-of-Africa theory of human origins? It was only one month ago that scientists made the surprising announcement of 5.7 million-year-old hominin footprints on the island of Crete in Greece.”

http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-evolution-human-origins/97-million-year-old-teeth-found-germany-belong-hominin-only-known-have-021671?nopaging=1

Link at http://www.woodpilereport.com/

(The picture with the German tooth story is of a gorilla with a Mona Lisa smile. Assigning human emotion to a gorilla does not make the ape a human precursor. Some day archaeologists, sociologists and others will admit: The more we learn, the more we know we don't know much.)

(Link to the cat story at Cosmos did not work.)