The oldest human hairs ever found were discovered in an unusual place--hyena poop! Researchers found the rock-hard dung in a cave in South Africa. They used tweezers to extract 40 fossilized hairs resembling glass needles from one of the hyena coprolites, or fossil turd.
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Thats creepy. Human hair in hyena poop? 1 million years ago... KILLER HYENAS
that is gross and cool at the same time!:-)
That just makes me SICK!
That's all out creepy.
Really creepy. That's so strange, I knew Hyenas can be dangerous but, I didn't know they ingested human hair.
what??? A human hair in a hyena's fossil! impossible!
gross and weird!!!!!!!!!!!!!but kinda cool...a million years ago?c'mon people...
*sonicguy22*
that is weird and gross!!!!!!!!!!!!
gros yack
People hair in hyena poop. that is really gross
Why!?
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA GROSS