Hello my friends!
I'am back, and I'll first tell you why I hadn't posted for a while.
You see, I was busy doing a University unit.
But I'll tell you what I'm posting.
I'm posting about a lecture I went to last night.
The lecture was called, WHO KILLED THE MEGA FAUNA?
Now, it was at the Melbourne Museum, in the Discovery Center.
The man that hosted it was the same man that discovered the Gogo fish.
He talked about all of the rich Mega Fauna deposits all around Central Australia and around the Southen part of Australia .
He talked about MOUMOTH CAVE, and how whole caverns were filled with Mega Fauna bones.
He also talked about some of the animals that lived in that time.
One of them was a giant flightless bird that was bigger than the 3 meter tall emu that lived in that time.
The giant flightless bird was actually related to ducks, and was nick-named, THE GIANT DEMON DUCK OF DOOM. To see it's skull click HERE.
He also talked about one of my favourite meat-eaters of that time, THE MARSUPIAL LION.
Click HERE.
He then takled about THYLACOLEO cave.
THYLACOLEO cave is on the Nullarbor Plain.
The cave was found by some amateur cave explorers.
At first when they got the Paleontologist's out at the site, they were reluctant to show them because they had found a complete MARSUPIAL LION skeleton.
To cut a long story short, he said that as soon as we came along, the Mega Fauna started to die out, but one of the ideas was that they were dying out because of us, and also because the ice age was ending.
At the end I asked 2 questions, the first was,
" Could the Mega Fauna have died out because we humans could have spread a disease amongst them?",
and his reply was,
"That's a very good question, and it is possible, but because we haven't been able to get DNA from the bones, we don't know if that happened or not."
I also asked ,
"Could they have died because the Mega Fauna had adapted too much to the Ice Age and couldn't survive in a warmer climate?"
And his reply was,
"From core samples we have from Antarctica the last Ice Age was quite slow and steady in it's decline so the Mega Fauna could have adapted."
I loved the lecture.
That's all from me for now, I'm signing off now.
See ya.
Mum's really sick, she's on the couch with a hot water bottle and boy is she really really grumpy!
I'm not going to the lecture tonight but I'm really looking forward to the Ned Kelly re-trial that's on tomorrow night.
Mum's going to give me some of the AIM tests in a few weeks.
I've been watching some science shows today 'coz I've still got the cold, anyway, I saw a show about Dinosaurs that went for two hours that told about how some people can easily fake some fossils.
I saw another show about Archaeology.
I know I haven't done much today, but as I said, the cold's shot me down in flames, so I'm going to rest for a few days and keep it easy.
Hello.
I went to a lecture last Tuesday and they spoke about all the teachers that went to the first world and that they were in the front line much longer than most people and that there were only two female school staff who enlisted.
The lady that did the lecture was the only person in the world to do the research that she did.
She told us a lot of stories about teachers and other school staff that went to the front line, and after the lecture this other woman talked about a lot of men that didn't want to shoot any one, so they became stretcher bearers and she talked about her uncle that was one of them, the lecturer said she knew about the other lady's uncle's story.
I enjoyed it and it was fun siting there and hearing all of those stores.
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