So, it turns out that not only did early humans kill off megafauna like mammoths, but they may have wiped out the dinosaurs.
Damn you, Og. DAMN YOU TO HELL!
Note, the copy editor is responsible for that one. The story itself is OK.
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If this is the thinking of officials in Russia who have launch authority . . . we . . . are . . . so . . . hosed . . .
I guess this is like one of those UFO and Bigfoot stories that used to show up on Pravda every once in a while. For whatever reason the Russian just love this sort of crap.
Hmmm…. Yeah the story headline and caption have NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CONTENT OF THE ARTICLE. Which is actually ok. Oh man.
As I said, blame that on the idiot copy editor, not the author.
There is something wrong with the article itself too:
“One of paleontology’s most intriguing mysteries will be the core of a conference at Oxford University this week where delegates will debate whether climate change or human hunters killed off the planet’s lost megafauna (the scientific name of the creatures).”
http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_03_19/Sould-early-humans-have-been-the-cause-of-the-dinosaurs-demise-7453/
The phrase “the scientific name of the creatures” implies the author is referring to the name giving to them in the title or in the summary at the top where they are also referred to as dinosaurs.
Bob Clark
Eh, even the meat of the article is squishy nothingburger. It was about some sort of ecological conference about the megafauna die-off, I gather? If there were any papers with actual novel interpretation or analysis, the writer didn’t convey that properly. Doesn’t even bring up the alternative theories for the die-off – like the somewhat dotty but still popular minor asteroid-strike thing. Seems odd, especially given the usual association with the Younger Dryas climate collapse.
Read it all. They imply that prehistoric humans damaged the planet’s ecology in many places, including the Amazon basin.
Yep. For progs, Original Sin is the very existence of the human race.
Megatharium? Giant Sloths? Wooly Mammoths?
I don’t know about you, but I can hear my ancestors now. (It must be that racial memory thing.)
“I can’t believe I ate the whole thing.”
Yeah!
Must have needed a reeealy big barbeque pit…
Seconds for everybody!
My guess; the copy editor saw animal names ending with “don” and thought “Dinosaurs”, and googled for a pic to use.
If I was that author, I’d be highly inclined to make that copy editor extinct. 🙂