Showing posts with label british man. Show all posts
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Thursday, May 25, 2017

Manchester scientist to clone 'British Man' from 9th century

A recently found 1,200-year-old fossil is giving anthropologists new insights into a warrior-like, bipedal masculine human specimen they have identified as Testiculus Englishmanus, a mysterious ancestor of modern-day British men. 

The fossilized remains were discovered in Wessex, at the supposed site of the historic Battle of Edington (present-day Wiltshire), where in May, 878 AD, patriotic Anglo-Saxons defeated "The Heathen Army" of the Viking invaders, leading to the eventual liberation and unification of England. 

The 6 foot-long fossil reveals that the extinct early man of England possessed two large working testicles (a left one and a right one), which shatters all modern theories about the origins of today's residents of the British Isles. 

Attached to the testicles were two fully developed legs and a solid, erect spine that allowed him to stand tall. As if that weren't enough, Testiculus Englishmanus had a pair of strong arms with powerful hands, making them ideal to form fists or use weapons.  More.....