[decimon]

Who’s your killer daddy ping.

[NVDave]

I’m sure that more study will reveal that the hunters were evil members of the National Spear and Club Association, who even then, were running well-funded campaigns against efforts to control pointed sticks.

[RightOnline]

A wombat the size of a rhino?? Yee gads..........

[GreenAccord]

This study would have gotten a lot more traction if it was titled:

Prehistoric giant animals killed by climate that was changed by man: study

[Tarpon]

Man kills big scary beasts that want to eat him. Shocked I tell you, just shocked. And I hear they taste like chicken.

Sometimes it is just the simple answers that win out.

[qam1]

But, but, but, but my college professors told me ancient man lived in harmony with nature and it's only the eeeeviil white man with his capitalism that drives species extinct.

[WayneS]

Well, if a 264 lb kangaroo shows up in my yard and starts to eat the vegetables I am growing, I’m afraid I’m have to have to kill it. Too bad, I suppose, but I need my crops for my food supply.

[denydenydeny]

"Humans cannot even be placed at the scene,"

...becasue we all know that indigenous peoples lived in complete harmony with Mother Gaia before the coming of the evil white man yadda yadda yadda. There's hardly any kind of science or scholarship that hasn't been infected with ideology.

[A Texan]

Chances are it is a mixture of Man killing out the mega-fauna, a drastic change in climate or weather conditions, and a few other factors. Climate change does happen. The world is constantly changing, and if a 1,000 lb animal with the brain the size of a peach you are pretty much screwed. Man assuredly wiped out quite a few of the large species for food or defense but most mega-fauna disappeared over a relatively short time period and I think people would be hard pressed to blame that all on Man.

[Larry Lucido]

Good thing too, otherwise we would be overrun with prehistoric giant animals.

[Grut]

"There's good eating on one of those" - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[weegee]

Bush’s fault. He’s such a caveman. < /s >

[PGR88]

And the BBQ of that animal also explains the large numbers of prehistoric beer cans found at the site also.

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

And God blesed them andd God said unto them, be fruitful and multiply...and have dominion...over every living thing that moveth upon the face of the earth...to you it shall be for meat BECAUSE IT TASTES LIKE CHICKEN.

[JustDoItAlways]

Climate change was not a significant factor 50,000 or 41,000 years ago.

Other large mega-fauna died out about 14,000 to 10,000 years ago as the ice age ended and vegetation patterns changed.

It is, however, interesting that whenever humans showed up somewhere (except Africa) all the mega-fauna disappeared soon after.

[NCjim]

Reminds me of a quote I heard with respect to whether humans were alive at the time of the dinosaurs -

“Of course, haven’t you ever heard of the Flintstones?”

[El Cid]

Genesis 9
8 And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD.

And as someone once noted, Nimrod probably didn't get that title by hunting bunny rabbits...
(unless he happened to have the same P.R. crew that works for Obama...)