Must Have Been REALLY Hungry

uniface

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Analyzing coprolites-the preserved poop of people-is dirty, stinky work. But every once in a while, it reveals something truly surprising.

In the case of a new paper in the Journal of Archaeological Science, that startling something was the fang of a venomous snake, digested by a person and left in a rock shelter in what is now Texas about 1,500 years ago.

Ate it whole !
 

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Religious Ritual?

A Dare?

Sporting? Loser eats the Snake?

Lost a War? Forced Humiliation?

Newbie -Group Hazing?

Criminal Punishment?

Warrior Initiation?

What ever the reason, the person survived an unnecessarily risky situation.
 

I think you can become immune to venom with enough exposure, maybe he was.
 

i was wondering were the other fang went
 

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