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Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ... by garmaine on Friday January 29, 2021 @03:14AM (#25955196)
The lammergeyer, a sort of high-altitude vulture. They're known to eat the dead on Everest.
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Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ... by matkoniecz on Friday January 29, 2021 @04:49AM (#25955696)
> They even have been observed living at altitudes of 7,500 m (24,600 ft) on Mount Everest

> The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists almost exclusively (70 to 90 percent) of bone.

> The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture

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Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ... by kens on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:16PM (#25959715)
"ossifrage" is interesting to see in a sentence because the word appeared in a famous 1977 RSA cryptographic challenge with the solution "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage". The challenge appeared in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column and took 17 years to break.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamis...

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Re:A small, delayed avalanche may have been responsible for ... by retrac on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:58AM (#25959469)
> ossifrage

the bone-breaker

Appropriate.

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