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Uncle Joe

(64,885 posts)
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 02:39 PM 17 hrs ago

Remote village where people walk on all fours 60 Minutes Australia



Oct 2, 2018

They're living, breathing men and women, but they walk on all fours, just as we did four million years ago. And until this film was shot, they were hidden away, unseen by the outside world.
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Remote village where people walk on all fours 60 Minutes Australia (Original Post) Uncle Joe 17 hrs ago OP
That seems unlikely relayerbob 17 hrs ago #1
I saw it when it first aired (2018, I think). True or not, CBS 60 Minutes had a good rep then... hlthe2b 11 hrs ago #6
I've seen this before, other articles. SWBTATTReg 16 hrs ago #2
i call bull rampartd 16 hrs ago #3
Yeah, not watching that. I suspect AI BS...nt Wounded Bear 15 hrs ago #4
This came out in 2018. n/t Uncle Joe 14 hrs ago #5
Precedes AI. I saw it in 2018 but didn't draw any conclusions then or now. hlthe2b 11 hrs ago #7
Not fake Tasmanian Devil 10 hrs ago #8
I believe nothing the broadcast. CBS - clownish buffoonery Shit. nt Javaman 2 min ago #9

relayerbob

(7,411 posts)
1. That seems unlikely
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 02:42 PM
17 hrs ago

Considering what they are wearing. They may walk on all fours, but they certainly aren't "unseen by the outside world".

Given where CBS is right now, I'm not even sure I believe it at all.

hlthe2b

(113,628 posts)
6. I saw it when it first aired (2018, I think). True or not, CBS 60 Minutes had a good rep then...
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 08:35 PM
11 hrs ago

I don't recall making any kind of real assessment of it at the time, figuring it would launch a stream of others looking into it and i would wait for further reporting/study.

Tasmanian Devil

(133 posts)
8. Not fake
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 09:14 PM
10 hrs ago

I've not watched the video, but the story has a basis in fact:

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

The Ulas family of 19 is from rural southern Turkey. Five of the family members (except for another, who has died) walk on all fours with their feet and the palms of their hands in what is called a "bear crawl".[1][2] Their quadrupedal gait had never been reported in anatomically intact adult humans, but was later also discovered in other families in the region.[2] The gait is different from the knuckle-walking quadrupedal gait of apes. In 2006, the family was the subject of a documentary: The Family That Walks on All Fours.


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