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Man 'Not To Blame' For Extinction Of Giant Wombat
The Telegraph (UK) ^
| 5-31-2005
| Roger Highfield
Posted on 05/30/2005 5:38:51 PM PDT by blam
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To: Coyoteman
I told you I didn't do it! Besides, hasn't the statute of limitations run out by now?I am sorry. There is no statute of limitations on murder. Now, where were you Tuesday night, 30,000 years ago?
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posted on
08/17/2006 10:31:10 AM PDT
by
Señor Zorro
("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
To: blam
Are you sure? I heard it was Bush's fault.
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posted on
08/17/2006 10:45:33 AM PDT
by
70times7
(Sense... some don't make any, some don't have any - or so the former would appear to the latter.)
To: blam
More confirmation of what we've long believed. Megafauna have mega-appetites and need more food than smaller (and smarter omniverous) critters like us. Climate affects food sources for grass-eaters and their predators. The fact that animals roughly 250 pounds and under survived and the mega-beasts didn't supports the new theory IMO.
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posted on
08/17/2006 11:30:57 AM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
(Fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but the wise are full of doubts.)
To: 70times7
Are you sure? I heard it was Bush's fault.Finally someone said it, I thought for a second I would have to.
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posted on
08/17/2006 12:58:47 PM PDT
by
Dustbunny
(Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me)
To: blam
Man 'Not To Blame' For Extinction Of Giant WombatSUV's were.
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posted on
08/17/2006 12:59:32 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: LIConFem
Can you imagine going through life with a schnoz like that??? OY!! ;o)What, the wombat or the girl?
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posted on
08/17/2006 1:00:39 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Islam is a perversion of faith, a lie against human spirit, an obscenity shouted in the face of G_d)
To: Leo Carpathian
They must have left one somewhere, because they reared their ugly heads again.They must have left two. One couldn't have mated. (Unless she lied through her teeth like my first wife.)
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posted on
08/17/2006 1:02:34 PM PDT
by
HIDEK6
To: commonasdirt
Whew! One less thing to feel guilty about.
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posted on
08/17/2006 2:55:39 PM PDT
by
Ciexyz
(Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
To: SunkenCiv
Thylacoleo Fossil Find
3 July 2003
Every palaeontologist dreams of the big one..the find of a century that one that will define their life forever...
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s888112.htm
"The dry cave had kept the half a million year old skeleton as bones not fossils. Bones so fragile that if they were picked up before being treated with glue, (they) would fall to dust in your hands."
LOL! It just lay there for 500,000 years...
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posted on
08/17/2006 5:12:29 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
To: Fred Nerks
Tastes like chicken dust. ;')
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posted on
08/17/2006 6:31:04 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: SIDENET
"Could you imagine running from one of those?"
When being chased by *any* predator; you only have to run faster than the guy behind you....:)
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:07:03 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.........)
To: SunkenCiv
The skeletons are so well preserved that they look like the animals died very recently. Dating on sites around Australia suggest these megafauna died out some 46,000 years ago. The discovery will be dated and could provide new information on when megafauna walked the earth.
http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/online/thylacoleo/intro.asp
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:11:58 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(ENEMY + MEDIA = ENEMEDIA)
To: Fred Nerks
I knew you'd come through. :')
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:45:28 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(updated my FR profile on Thursday, August 10, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
To: blam
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:46:32 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
(Today, we settled all family business.)
To: Leo Carpathian
"The big animals consumed little peace and animal loving people - wiping out prehistoric traces of liberals. They must have left one somewhere, because they reared their ugly heads again."
That would be the Treadwell Culture, named after a recent individual (Timothy Treadwell) who thought inviting bears to dinner would not result in the host being the main course.
To: commonasdirt
"No man" could kill the Witch King of Angmar, either...
Man 'not to blame' for extinction of giant wombat
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posted on
08/17/2006 8:58:18 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Hey, look man, I didn't mean to shoot the son of a b!tch. The gun went off. I don't know why.)
To: Tench_Coxe
"That would be the Treadwell Culture, named after a recent individual (Timothy Treadwell) who thought inviting bears to dinner would not result in the host being the main course."Yup. Ate him and his girlfriend. Incidently, the 'meal' was caught on audio tape. The tape was given to his mother.
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posted on
08/17/2006 9:09:31 PM PDT
by
blam
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