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Could the Tasmanian tiger be hiding out in New Guinea?
Mongobay.com ^ | May 20, 2013 | Jeremy Hance

Posted on 06/18/2013 11:56:05 AM PDT by presidio9

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To: EEGator

No, only the military is allowed guns.

However, not all weapons are guns.


21 posted on 06/18/2013 7:07:09 PM PDT by Jemian
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To: Jemian

Gotcha. :)


22 posted on 06/18/2013 7:11:40 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Jemian

Very interesting. Do you know the name of the group?


23 posted on 06/19/2013 2:46:19 AM PDT by OldNewYork (Biden '13. Impeach now.)
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To: OldNewYork

No, not off the top of my head. If you want to find out, do a search for the SIL Ethnologue. It probably has the info you’re looking for.

There are at least 250 different language groups here.


24 posted on 06/19/2013 4:18:16 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: presidio9
hiding out in New Guinea?

They're in witness protection and have changed their name to New Guinea Pigs.....

25 posted on 06/19/2013 4:24:26 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (This space for rent)
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To: presidio9; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks presidio9.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


26 posted on 06/20/2013 9:45:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: EEGator
If they find them, I want one.

I know what you want... but it doesn't work:


27 posted on 06/20/2013 10:16:00 PM PDT by roamer_1 (Globalism is just socialism in a business suit.)
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To: presidio9

Interesting. Some folks apparently also think the Megalania may be alive.

http://thecryptozoologist.webs.com/apps/blog/show/15615981-megalania-prisca-dragon-of-the-australian-outback


28 posted on 06/20/2013 10:37:49 PM PDT by Altariel ("Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!")
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To: presidio9

I totally believe it still exists either on the Australian mainland or on some of the surrounding islands/archipelagos.

Predators are by their nature even at best of times sparsely populated and solitary. Even now I wonder about the big cats in North America, how they successfully maintain a population, with densities of one per square mile or even less...


29 posted on 06/20/2013 10:44:34 PM PDT by djf (Rich widows: My Bitcoin address is... 1ETDmR4GDjwmc9rUEQnfB1gAnk6WLmd3n6)
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To: Jemian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine

that extinct animal is a thylacine, a marsupial...

“...Thylacinus cynocephalus, Greek for “dog-headed pouched one”) was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger (because of its striped back) or the Tasmanian wolf.[6] Native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, it is thought to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its family, Thylacinidae; specimens of other members of the family have been found in the fossil record dating back to the early Miocene...


30 posted on 06/20/2013 11:05:37 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Fred Nerks

I am so glad to read your post. One less worry off my mind.


31 posted on 06/21/2013 12:54:15 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: Jemian
Of all the animals on earth, the tiger is the one that I fear the most.

But I hope you don't fear THIS tiger!

War Eagle!

32 posted on 06/21/2013 5:02:01 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: roamer_1

Damn it!


33 posted on 06/21/2013 5:24:26 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Alas Babylon!

They would have to actually be good at something. :)


34 posted on 06/21/2013 5:28:15 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Alas Babylon!

No, I don’t fear Aubie.

You know, I gotta say,

It’s GREAT TO BE AN AUBURN TIGER!

War Eagle! Less than 73 days to go.


35 posted on 06/21/2013 5:59:41 AM PDT by Jemian
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To: presidio9

Exciting. Hope they still exist. They were wrongfully blamed for stock losses in Tasmania.


36 posted on 06/21/2013 12:23:47 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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To: Altariel; presidio9; SunkenCiv; All

Recently a new large predator the Fosa was found somewhere, anyone remember that one. Also, I think in southern Australia, a 12,000 year old find of a not very sapien looking human was found called the Kow Marsh human. I saw one of their skulls in the new evolution exhibit at the Smithsonian identified as a homo sapien. I looked a lot more like a Heidelbergensis, not even a Neanderthal. If you go to to exhibit it is in the lower right hand corner of the wall of skulls.


37 posted on 06/28/2013 11:26:01 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: presidio9
Here's a picture of one with a human for scale:


38 posted on 06/29/2013 12:10:59 AM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: gleeaikin; blam; Fred Nerks

http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/fossils/kow-swamp


39 posted on 06/30/2013 8:08:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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thanks glee’.

Kow Swamp Archaeological Site
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kow_Swamp_Archaeological_Site

[snip] The Kow Swamp archaeological site comprises a series of late Pleistocene burials within the lunette of the eastern rim of a former lake known as Kow Swamp. The site is located 10 km south-east of Cohuna in the central Murray Valley, in northern Victoria... The site is significant for archaeological excavations by Alan Thorne between 1968 and 1972 which recovered the partial skeletal remains of more than 22 individuals. [/snip]


40 posted on 06/30/2013 8:09:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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