[ZULU]

Burp!!!

[Humvee]

It's the "Native-Americans" fault! You know, the ones who everybody says were sensivtive to the environment. What is PETA doing to condemn them?

[calex59]

Well to tell you the truth, if I was alive at that time I would have been getting all the men in the tribe together to figure out the best way to exterminate animals like the short faced bear, a bear who makes the grizzly look like a teddy bear, the sabre tooth and other predators that must have made life for humans just peachy.

If humans did kill them off they had good reason too and if the idiots that abound today can't see that they also would have been either throwing spears or being eaten then they are even dumber than they act!

I doubt that humans had much to do with killing off the big predators, however, as the american indians had a hard time with grizzlies let alone the huge meat gulping critters of the ice age.

The fact is, after the ice the water of the plains eventurally went away, as rain fall wasn't that great, the prey annimals died and then the big predators died from lack of food. This is known to many people but apparently facts don't stand in the way of a good story blaming humans for everything. Pretty soon we will have somehow made the dinos die off.

[Republicus2001]

This is all Bushfault!

[RetiredArmy]

Danged SUV's!

[Plutarch]

It may not be too long before we have megafauna such as Mammoths back again.

Frozen mammoth unveiled

A frozen mammoth dug up from the Siberian tundra was unveiled in central Japan in a preview of the six-month World Exposition that is expected to draw millions of tourists.

The beast, believed to have lived 18,000 years ago and preserved in a giant refrigerator, is a key exhibit of the Expo, which will open to the public one week later and will largely feature more modern wonders such as robots. Full-bodied mammoths have been found in the ground in the past, but the exhibit at the World Expo is billed as the most successful attempt yet to excavate and display almost the full animal.

The extinct mammoth on display has a nearly intact soil-coloured head covered with muscle tissue and some woolly hair, along with tusks and a front leg. “This is not a mere pavilion, but a laboratory as we will do scientific research here,” Toshio Nakamura, secretary-general of the exposition, told the opening ceremony of the “Mammoth Lab.” “This mammoth has been really well preserved,” Nakamura said, adding that the head has already been monitored through computerised technology. “We would like as many people as possible to take a look at this mammoth and think about the past and the future of human beings.” A group of Russian and Japanese scientists are also hoping to clone mammoths from remains of the animal by using elephant eggs.

Visitors can view the mammoth, which was excavated in 2002, from windows at the lab, where the temperature and humidity are controlled by computers. afp

[playball0]

Hold on there. The Indians caused mass exstinction? Now explain the NCAA silly ruling on Indian names, hmmmm?

[untrained skeptic]

Basically, there's no real evidence to support their theory, it's merely a theory.

The evidence doesn't really conform to their theory, but it doesn't disprove it either.

It's mainly people starting with a conclusion, and looking for evidence to support it, and trying to ignore or minimize evidence that contradicts it.

In the end there's nothing useful to learn from their theory, other than that they have an agenda.

[nuke rocketeer]

Mmmmmmmm. BBQ Sloth! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Wicket]

ROFL.

These folks need to be institutionalized, IMHO.

[kidd]

Guilty!

[shuckmaster]

We're supposed to believe humans came to America 11,000 years ago & hunted everything on two continents to extinction in just 500 years? Give me a break. When humans came into Europe 50,000 years ago, they found goats, pigs, cows, horses, and sheep. They couldn't hunt them to extinction in the 45,000 years before they finally began domesticating them.
Humans came into North America 22,000 years ago prior to the beginning of the ice age 20,000ya. All you have to do is look a layer under your Clovis to find them. No doubt the humans were happy to have a few easy meals when the spreading ice sheets pushed the big game to them but it was primarily the change of habitat that did them in.

[TASMANIANRED]

Agenda science is bogus.

[GOP_1900AD]

Bull pucky ..... there were NOT enough humans around during the past couple of Ice advances to have such an effect. At one point, there may have been as few as 10000 people world wide.

[Bar-Face]

I think I would take this study with a grain of salt (& pepper & barbecue sauce)
It is a well known fact that the Native Americans were "at one with nature" and never ever killed more than they could use. (Disregard that herd of Mammoths they found at the base of cliff in Colorado). it is another well known fact the Europeans and their descendent's are the greatest pillagers of the planet in the history of the planet. So therefore if the prehistoric animals were hunted to extinction, it must have been someone of European ancestry. But wait! the Europeans did not get here until about 1000 years ago. This creates a problem.
Yep it must have been an ice age. An ice age caused by those dastardly northern Europeans and their fire and heating their caves. There it is. The whole durn study proved wrong in just a few sentences.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

Not to mention that the ice age ended in the first place due to global warming caused by human industrialization and fossil fuel burning...]

oh, wait a minute...

[jos65]

And how many years and federal dollars did it take for this enlightening research. Am I,as a taxpayer,getting my monies worth? duh!

[festus]

Now if we could just be responsible for the extinction of liberals we'd be gettin somewhere....

[Let's Roll]

Oh, please ... just, frickin' please.

[ApplegateRanch]

Obviously they would have preferred the humans to starve instead.

Must be a great feeling, going through life filled with such self-loathing for fulfilling Holy Darwin's Sacred Dictate:

"The fittest shalt survivest; yea, he shalt extinctify the unfit competitor."

[ApplegateRanch]

PINGAROONY!