RE: Genyornis (?) depicted in ancient Aboriginal rock art and other paleo news

[Allan Edels <edels@msn.com>]

All:

The studies I've seen indicate that human predation was the tipping point - in 
combination with the ice age, and the decreased area of available prey [for the 
predators]/hiding places [from the predators] - partially due to increased 
human habitation. 

(Essentially the same as Richard said).

Allan Edels


> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2013 08:09:31 -0600
> From: rtravsky@uwyo.edu
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Genyornis (?) depicted in ancient Aboriginal rock art and other 
> paleo news
>
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> On Mon, 8 Jul 2013, David Marjanovic wrote:
>> [...]
>> OK, so, Last Glacial Maximum did it.
>>
>> But why the last one and none of the previous ones? Wasn't the
>> 2nd-to-last one a bit worse than the last one?
>
> Possibly the extra factor of having to deal with a new predator
> in the neighborhood (i.e., humans)...
>