[Fred Nerks]

Debate has raged about the demise of “whopper hopper” P. goliah

[Cowboy Bob]

IIRC, there were no White Europeans living in Australia at the time - so you can’t blame us!

[mamelukesabre]

Makes one wonder why africans never wiped out their megafauna.

[Fred Nerks]

Most of the megafauna were extinct before the aboriginal people arrived...

"There were so few species left when humans arrived that to argue humans were responsible for effecting the extinctions is drawing a long bow," says Dr Field. "If humans did contribute to the extinction of those final eight species, it is really only a footnote to the whole process."

SOURCE

WOMBAT LUNCH!

[calex59]

It's simple. The ice age ended, the water that the glaciers supplied to areas, such as the great plains in the US(Utah has a salt lake left over from it, the salt flats are another relic)and other areas in the world, receded with the glaciers, the food supply dried up, meanwhile men had to eat to live. Men didn't cause their extinction if they did, they would have wiped out more than the so called mega fauna. Lack of water and food did it, smaller species survived, large ones requiring more food died off. The cave bear, saber tooth and other predators died when the large animals necessary to support them died off.

The libs will never stop trying to blame man for the extinction of all other species. The will tell you a lion has the right to kill to eat, but man somehow never had that right.

[melsec]

“A fossil study of the extinct giant kangaroo has added weight to the theory that humans were responsible for the demise of “megafauna” 46,000 years ago.”

Oh this must be untrue as we are constantly having it rammed down our throats the the Aborigine lived in total balance with nature in harmony and peace (load of frog sh#t).

Aborigines still hunt with fire as they did way back when - some plants fourish because of this and some die out - as well as the species that rely on them.

Mel

[Daffynition]

[SunkenCiv]

In Horus, a journal published by the late David Griffard, vol II no 1 (1985), Barry Fell was interviewed. Alas, DG went down in a private plane after the seventh issue. Among other things:

In the middle of Australia there is a group of three or four meteorite craters called the Henley craters. They're like the Arizona meteorite crater -- not so big, but there are several of them -- and, like in Arizona, the land was scattered with pieces of iron meteorite. I think the [inaudible] dating very slow growing desert plants. They believe that the date is about 5000 years ago -- the formation of the craters. The Aboriginal name for this area is the "Place Where The Sun Walked on the Earth" -- they must have seen it!

[SunkenCiv]

Feb 8 1999 Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni: Human Impact on Australian Megafauna (Gifford H. Miller, John W. Magee, Beverly J. Johnson, Marilyn L. Fogel, Nigel A. Spooner, Malcolm T. McCulloch, Linda K. Ayliffe, Science, Volume 283, Number 5399 Issue of 8 Jan 1999, pp. 205 - 208 ).

Abstract: More than 85 percent of Australian terrestrial genera with a body mass exceeding 44 kilograms became extinct in the Late Pleistocene. Although most were marsupials, the list includes the large, flightless mihirung Genyornis newtoni. More than 700 dates on Genyornis eggshells from three different climate regions document the continuous presence of Genyornis from more than 100,000 years ago until their sudden disappearance 50,000 years ago, about the same time that humans arrived in Australia. Simultaneous extinction of Genyornis at all sites during an interval of modest climate change implies that human impact, not climate, was responsible.

[SunkenCiv]

http://www7.pair.com/arthur/meteor/archive/archive5/May98/msg00388.html

Re: Tektites: Fossil record of Australasian impact?
Subject: Re: Tektites: Fossil record of Australasian impact?
From: William Blair
Date: Tue, 26 May 1998 09:40:58 -0600

Considering the size of an impact which would be required to produce the Australasian strewn field, I’m wondering why, in all of the books on tektites that I’ve read thus far, no mention is made of any fossil record indicating an extinction event of any size 770K years ago (the K/AR and fission track age of the Australasian tektites). Also, assuming that glacial ice cores provide us with atmospheric data going back that far (?), fallout from such an event should be detectable. If neither the fossil record nor glacial records provide evidence of an impact, it would seem to indicate that some extraterrestrial source for the tektites is far more likely. Why haven’t I seen any mention of this obvious method in the literature?

References:

Tektites: Hypthetical Terrestrial Ring & Possible Lunar Source Craters
From: “Varricchio, Louis”

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/serpent/crater2.jpg

The Wolfe Creek Meteorite Crater, about 300,000 years old, is the second largest rimmed meteorite crater in the world at approximately 2850 feet across and 160 feet deep. It is located in the flat plains of the northeast edge of the Great Sandy Desert, about 60 miles south of the town of Halls Creek and about an hour’s drive from the nearby Aboriginal community of Billiluna. The crater lies in the center of the Aboriginal ancestral territory, and the paintings in Track of the Rainbow Serpent explore the spiritual meaning its Aboriginal “owners” attach to it. Photo: Dr. Peggy Reeves Sanday.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fred Nerks.

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