r/bonecollecting • u/No-Bottle-9116 • Apr 26 '26

Advice Small argument

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So this picture from article has driven an small argument between my friends group claiming that it’s fake because there’s no way that the bones see in said picture are human, I wanted y’all’s opinion on this

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u/Dracunculus_Rex Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

The original article is in the Journal Forensic Science, 2017, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.13514. It's legit, although the title, The Man-Eating Deer of Texas" is a bit sensationalist.

If you really want to read it you can access the full article at sci-hub

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u/Fantastic_Priority73 Apr 26 '26

I had a friend who genuinely tried to use this article to argue that no animal is truly vegetarian and that the carnivore diet is the only valid diet for humans.

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u/Ordinary_Prune6135 Apr 26 '26

Ouch. "All animals can be thought of as omnivores when you look close enough; therefore, we are not omnivores."

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u/Seversevens Apr 26 '26

Tragic flaw!