[blam]

GGG Ping.

[ModelBreaker]

Another, by a Queensland team, suggests it was climate change, rather than early Australian aborigines, that killed off the "megafauna".

Clearly, it was aboriginal CO2.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Okay... quick, now: which one's the giant wombat...?

:)

[Coyoteman]

Man 'not to blame' for extinction of giant wombat

I told you I didn't do it! Besides, hasn't the statute of limitations run out by now?

[NormsRevenge]

Diprotodon? Cool!

[SIDENET]

humans co-existed with megafauna

Damn that megafauna...it's gonna be the death of us all!

[CzarNicky]

By 30,000 years ago the world was in the grip of a major Ice Age. "While these findings do not free humans of all blame for the extinctions, they demonstrate that extinction was a gradual process, strongly implicating climate change as the driving mechanism," said Ms Field.

Climate change? Obviously early man was driving around in SUVs to cause this.

[Leo Carpathian]

The dig failed to unearth evidence of human activity, indicating that people did not inhabit the region at the same time as megafauna.

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.

[IronJack]

Whew! That's a load off my mind.

[sourcery]

Man 'Not To Blame' For Extinction Of Giant Wombat

So it was his wife, then?

[humblegunner]

Humans may have been unjustly accused of wiping out the giant kangaroos, wombats and other massive marsupials that roamed Australia 40,000 years ago, new research suggests.

Thats bull.
Eaker killed 'em and I have the pictures.

[Darksheare]

Whooops, forgot to ping some people.
Sionnsar, Meeks, more big critters mentioned.
This time 'Diprotodon.'

(Plus man vindicated, possibly, of extincting said critters.)

[Nick Danger]

Man 'Not To Blame' For Extinction Of Giant Wombat

I always assumed this was caused by the Giant Wombat Eaters.

[gundog]

The Brits still get credit for wiping out the Tasmanians, though, right?

[popdonnelly]

Thank God, I can finally stop feeling guilty about the extinction of the Giant Wombat.

[FreedomFarmer]

It was only a 125cc, but it ran like a stripped $$ ape.

[Frank_2001]

It's not man's fault? Whoa, that's a relief!;)

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

Please FREEPMAIL me if you want on, off, or alter the "Gods, Graves, Glyphs" PING list --
Archaeology/Anthropology/Ancient Cultures/Artifacts/Antiquities, etc.
The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[SunkenCiv]

links could be dead...

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
Jan 8 1999
Abstract
Science, Volume 283, Number 5399 Issue of 8 Jan 1999, pp. 205 - 208

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.

Asteroids 'affected human evolution'
by Dr David Whitehouse
BBC News Online science editor

...according to Dr Benny Peiser, a social anthropologist at John Moores University in Liverpool, UK, and Michael Paine, an impact researcher from the Planetary Society in Australia, the most likely cause of hominid extinctions may be more than 20 globally devastating catastrophes that occurred over the last five million years... "Just over two million years ago an asteroid estimated to be 2 km (1.2 miles) in diameter struck the Southern Ocean, south west of Chile. Had it struck land the environmental consequences might have been much worse. If the collision had occurred a few hours earlier, southern Africa might have been wiped out, along with our ancestors."

[SunkenCiv]

"extinction was a gradual process"

Extinction is instantaneous, whatever its cause.