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Scientific debate heats up over fate of Australia's dinosaurs (aborigines killed them)
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| 12/27/06
Posted on 12/27/2006 9:09:56 AM PST by Paddlefish
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To: Paddlefish
Gees, the aboriginal people weren't concerned about endangered species were they?
To: Paddlefish
Tast
es -ed lak' chicken.
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:13:35 AM PST
by
muawiyah
To: Paddlefish
a) I think they mean Mega-fauna (NOT dinosaurs)
b) No way the aborigines looked that good. No way.
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:13:45 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: Paddlefish
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:14:09 AM PST
by
exnavy
(God means love, not hate.)
To: Paddlefish
Diprotodon BBQ!.........Yep!, Humans did it!......
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:14:15 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: BenLurkin
a) I think they mean Mega-fauna (NOT dinosaurs)
Yep, Megafauna are not dinosaurs. Seriously wrong and misleading headline.
To: Dilbert San Diego
Gees, the aboriginal people weren't concerned about endangered species were they? Yes, they were.......Themselves........
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:15:20 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: muawiyah
I bet it tast-ed more like PORK!......Look at them RIBS!.......
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:16:12 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Paddlefish
WAIT!
When did those human invent fire?
And when did those humans start passing gas?
It still might be humans that caused the climate change.
Go ahead and prove it wasn't. (:
To: BenLurkin
You mean you do not like how they look?
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:22:55 AM PST
by
A. Pole
(It is better to have $5M and live in Weston Massachusetts than to have $20M and to live in Bogota.)
To: A. Pole
The guy on the right looks like Santa Claus.
So that is what he goes in the off-season!
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:24:38 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
To: Paddlefish
Scientific debate heats up over fate of Australia's dinosaurs (aborigines killed them)
The megafauna they were talking about didn't include dinosaurs.
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:26:26 AM PST
by
aruanan
To: spintreebob
When did those human invent fire?
And when did those humans start passing gas? Good question... but the real question is when did the humans find out you could sneak up behind a farting megafauna with a torch and get a real NEAT explosion... and lots of meat spattered over the landscape.
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:37:37 AM PST
by
Swordmaker
(Remember, the proper pronunciation of IE is "AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!)
To: Paddlefish
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:39:49 AM PST
by
aculeus
To: Dilbert San Diego
We need reparations. Make the aborigines pay for their misdeeds.
To: BenLurkin
"They perished within 20,000 years of sharing the continent with humans, suggesting it was spears that did them in, rather than habitat changes."
That's a pretty big jump.
To: SunkenCiv
As the climate stressed these beasties ability to survive, the humans added another stressor, which in combination they could not over come?
Would that not make the answer to the question, "did the climate kill them off; or did humans kill them off,", "yes"?
GGG worthy?
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posted on
12/27/2006 9:49:31 AM PST
by
ApplegateRanch
(Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
To: Paddlefish
Not very likely that the Australian aborigines killed off the megafauna, IMHO. First it's unlikely that the human population was ever large enough or widely dispersed enough in Australia to have been able to hunt the animals into extinction. Second one has to wonder when these supposed hunters had finished off the megafauna, why they stopped their killing. Were the kangaroos too cute? And third, the same claim is made about the American Indians. That is, that they killed off the American megafauna at about the same time. That's too much of a coincidence. It's much more likely that some worldwide phenomena was responsible for the extinction of these animals.
ML/NJ
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posted on
12/27/2006 10:07:07 AM PST
by
ml/nj
To: Paddlefish
Tastes like chicken!
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posted on
12/27/2006 10:59:04 AM PST
by
UnklGene
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