Neanderthals Hunted And Butchered Giant Elephants | 7 Days of Science (300th Episode)

In the news this week there's been the discovery of new sites preserving evidence of Neanderthals butchering giant straight-tusked elephants, a new species of hedgehog, some mysterious fossil footprints, and much more! Thank you all for getting us to 300 episodes!
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Sources:
An extremely energetic cosmic ray:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
www.sci.news/astronomy/amater...
Enceladus amino acids:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
New hedgehog species:
zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1...
Health and climate change:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-en...
Range of shoulder motion in Mononykus:
peerj.com/articles/16605/
Speciation and extinction in crocodile-line archosaurs:
www.nature.com/articles/s4155...
A marine snowstorm during the Great Dying:
pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/...
Did dinosaurs shape ageing in modern mammals?:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...
Neanderthals hunting elephants:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas...
The oldest bird-like tracks in the fossil record:
journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
0:00 - Introduction
1:20 - Extremely energetic cosmic ray
2:38 - Enceladus amino acids
3:49 - New hedgehog species discovered
4:37 - Health and climate change
6:05 - Mononykus forelimb movement
7:20 - The rise and fall of crocs and their relatives
9:10 - Marine snowstorms during the Great Dying
10:34 - The 'longevity bottleneck hypothesis'
11:41 - Neanderthals hunted and butchered elephants
13:15 - Mysterious bird-like footprints from the Triassic
14:26 - Outro

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I love all these new Neanderthal discoveries as of late. The more we learn about their complex lives, the more perplexing the question of their disappearance becomes.

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the rise and fall of the many different species of Pseodosuchians has got to be my favorite part due to the fact that the group as a whole has a very complex evolutionary history. from evolving into the dominant land group of Archosaurs to the crocodylomorph branch surviving both the Triassic and Cretaceous extinction events their truly an underappreciated group of reptiles and I really hope we find more fossil species in the future.

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My theory is that neanderthals probably used a lot of traps. Simple holes are easy to make and can catch a whole animal or smaller ones can be used to trip animals to break their legs. All it takes is a bunch of covered holes bug enough for the target's foot to fit in and deep enough to cause them to get injured by falling. But neanderthals probably knew how to make complicated traps just like the hunter gatherers that still exist.

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In most of their range in the paleozoic, Neanderthals could easily keep lots of meat edible for 6 months of the year or more. One carcass can feed a tribe of 100+ for at least a month and likely more, even without cooking.

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cosmic rays are slow az... 90km/h (I just looked that up).... light 1 BILLION km/h... Wherever that ray came from it's LONG GONE. 12 million years gone. We hadn't even started to think about climbing down from the trees then. BTW CONGRATS on your excellent videos and your 300th episode. I really liked when you met the expert for Walking with Dinosaurs,, and the episode with the other two guys, and one dressed as, er, his focus species... and I like your new host too, I think I caught her first video, her joy over saying something right first time was catching. Good vibes all of you.... even if the paper puppet moves its mouth without you speaking.

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But how are you actually *pronouncing* that word, ‘porpoise’? Isn’t that what they were discussing? Same with ‘tortoise’, or ‘puma’ being pronounced by British people more like ‘pyooma’, rather than the more American (and Spanish) ‘pu-mahh’… and yes, it’s the correct term for a certain _genera_ of cetaceans, some of the smallest ones, in fact. But it wouldn’t be the correct word “when talking about animals from the order Cetacea”. Then the term would simply be “cetaceans”.

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@@erikm8372@erikm8372 I'm sure people understand what a word is used, but I think it's from a science channel, so I assumed porpoise is part of the dolphin and whale families (not all the same families within that order either), but still, one does state Purpose as well in other contexts and who knows? That comes up to Ben's speech pattern. I personally mispronounce words all the time; for instance, PI, the mathematic word, is said as PI by some, and I say that as Pie. Also, his family does cover whales/dolphins/porpoises in detail, so it's correct when a person assumedly jumps forward with a way to say something if it's part of remembering a word from some other contexts applied in different senses. It's good gravy, from my point of view.

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Congrats on 300! 🎉

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Huzzah. I've really liked the episodes. Thanks!!!

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Information and natural humor great combinations.

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Congratulations on hitting 300! The opening was hilarious. I always look forward to your episodes. It just gets better.

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Congrats on 300!

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Can't wait for 300 more!

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... I never really noticed how all three presenters have blue eyes. I just find that fascinating, no idea why.

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04:50 A correction: - Dengue fever is NOT caused by mosquitos. It is caused by the Dengue virus, which is only transmitted by mosquitos. And congratulations on 300 episodes.

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Hence, mosquitos have a role in causing it since they transfer it.