Re: recently extinct groups

[Phillip Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 08:51:28 +1000 Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>
writes:

> For those of us here in Australia, tonight's episode of Catalyst  
> concerns a Thylacoleo skeleton (amongst other species) found in 
> caves  
> in Western Australia a couple of years ago (I believe this was the  
> 
> same cache of skeletons that included the horned wallabies). It's 
> said  
> to be the most complete Thylacoleo specimen ever found. The episode  
> 
> includes lots of decent-looking CGI reconstructions (for those who  
> 
> lack imaginations of their own...)


And as an excuse to give unemployed movie industry CGI programers a job. 
;-)

CGI is largely considered to be a "given" in science docs, even when it
really isn't needed, or even appropriate.

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