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rohandsa
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I had to watch the Discovery Channel's 'What Killed the Mega-Beasts?' last night as there were no movies I wanted to see, I hate pre-season football and would like to torture Joe Morgan to death.
I was appalled at the crap that was presented as scientific research and the mis-information that was put forward as fact.
About the only parts that didn't send me running to the vomitorium were the ones on the relationship between the extinction of the Australian Mega-Fauna (they admitted that, while there was a big correlation between the arrival of humans and the extinctions, there was no way to prove anything) the extinction of the Moa and the introduction to the 'Big Kill' senario about mammoth butcher sites. The pieces on Castoroides ohioensis, the glacial melt flood, the 'super-virus' and on the extinctions in Madagascar weren't worth the videotape they were recorded on.
Too bad the makers couldn't come up with a better product given the great special effects and the access to some really interesting fossil deposits.
(That's right, Little Sally! This here giant beaver needed 7 inch gnawing teeth and expanded versions of modern beaver molars in order to eat cattails!
GMAFB!)
Eric G. Taylor
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MerovingianB
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I didn't watch it. What critters were spotlighted? I know about the giant beaver, and the giant sloth, but were there any interesting non-mammals talked about?
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orion98
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Hmmm,
They discussed the extinction of the Moa, the giant marsupials, birds and horned tortoises of Australia, and the giant lemurs from Madagascar (yeah, I know! Marsupials and lemurs are mammals, but only just!) Didn't spend any time on the South American fauna at all, which is a shame.
The main thrust of the program was the extinction of the mammalian megafauna. One of the most disturbing things about the presentation was the complete failure to point on the difficulty of any of the extinction models in dealing with the faunas that became extinct in the core locations of Europe, Asia and Africa.
Eric G. Taylor
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sallan
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As this is the same network that felt 'Valley of the T-Rex' was worthy of air time, I suppose this omission wasn't entirely unexpected.
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