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Re:By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons i... by LukeShu on Thursday May 13, 2021 @07:28PM (#27148790)
As 'drops says, your versions is correct if you drop the comma. You can move parts of a sentence around from the "normal" order with commas:

    Normal:          Hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons by eating them.
    Move with comma: By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons.

    Normal:          I think it will rain later.
    Move with comma: It will rain later, I think.
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Re:By eating them, hyenas gathered 9 Neanderthal skeletons i... by Talanes on Thursday May 13, 2021 @11:08PM (#27150242)
Could also get weird and stuff it in the middle.

>Hyenas gathered, by eating them, 9 Neanderthal skeletons.

Which is even more awkward in actual use, but does make obvious the biggest problem with the sentence: you don't gather things by eating them.

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