[ZULU]

Burp!!!

[SunkenCiv]

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[FastCoyote]

"Burp" Ha Ha!

"sloths survived until about 4,400 years ago. " on Hispaniola and Caribbean islands.

That means long boats of some sort arrived 4400 years ago. That would coincide with Egyptian and Phoenician development. Coinkidink? I ask you.

[Dustbunny]

No comment other than the fact that the grants that paid for this study were a waste of cash.

[vannrox]

This is all speculation. The only "evidence" that the "so-called" experts had was that it appeared that the Giant Sloths died out around 11,000BC, and that it is a common assumption that humans emigrated to North America via the land bridge around 11,000 BC. That is not proof.

Proof are Giant Sloth bones with cut marks on them. Proof consists of cave paintings of Giant Sloths being hunted. Proof consists of a number of other things that are evidence for this speculation.

For all we know, the sloth tasted terrible. So just because one theory dovetails into another theory is no reason for an out and out connection, that is unless one states that the speculation has some solid rationale behind it.

[the invisib1e hand]

well, there ya have it. We global freeze, we global warm...seem evolution has really done a poor job by allowing us to proliferate so much.

[Lazamataz]

Humans are likely responsible for the extinction of Ice Age megafauna—large mammals like giant sloths, short-faced bears, mammoths, and saber-toothed cats—that occurred in the Americas around 11,000 years ago, a new study says.

That's okay. We still have cows.

[Republican Wildcat]

It's Bush's fault. He should be forced apologize and explain why this had to happen.

[isom35]

those cavemen drove SUVs ?

[cookcounty]

"Humans are likely responsible for the extinction of Ice Age megafauna .....that occurred in the Americas around 11,000 years ago, a new study says. "

.......Solid evidence that Europeans arrived in America long before Columbus.

[Cementjungle]

Climate change may have been a factor in pushing the animals to extinction, Steadman says, but it took humans to push them over the edge

Survival of the fittest. Get over it.

[Sawdring]

Ok, when I open this thread I get the following pop-up window:

The server www.phil.fak.uni-duesseldor.de:80 introduction module I requires a username and password

It gives me a login screen. Weird.