New Research - extinction of the Australian megafauna

[Tim Barrows]

Dear listmembers,

For those of you that may not have heard, there was some important 
new research bearing on the extinction debate just published in the 
journal 'Science':

   New Ages for the Last Australian Megafauna:
   Continent-Wide Extinction About 46,000 Years Ago

   Richard G. Roberts,1* Timothy F. Flannery,2 Linda K. Ayliffe,3 
Hiroyuki Yoshida,1
   Jon M. Olley,4 Gavin J. Prideaux,5 Geoff M. Laslett,6 Alexander Baynes,7
   M. A. Smith,8 Rhys Jones,9 Barton L. Smith10

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/292/5523/1819

The paper has drawn some comments from other researchers such as 
Richard Fullagar and Judith Field, summarized in the following 
article published in the Weekend Australian:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,2097667%255E2702,00.html


Comments to the list are welcome.

cheers,

Tim.