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Last updated on July 12th, 2017 at 10:21 am
A slightly behind-the-times US take on Australian politics:
Peter Garrett, the new Minister for the Environment and Labor’s outspoken climate change leader …
Not any more. These days, Garrett is definitely inspoken.
- Ancient Mammoth Carcass Arrives in Japan
Dec 29, 8:38 AM (ET)TOKYO (AP) – The frozen carcass of a 37,000-year-old baby mammoth unearthed this summer in Siberia arrived in Japan on Saturday for tests that researchers hope will shed new light on the internal structure of the ancient beasts, an official said.The 4-foot gray-and-brown carcass arrived at Tokyo International Airport on Saturday afternoon, said Mitsuyoshi Uno, an official with the joint Russo-Japanese mammoth-study project that is overseeing the research.
Discovered in May by a reindeer herder in northern Siberia’s remote Yamal-Nenets region, the frozen mammoth’s trunk and eyes are virtually intact and it even has some fur, but its tail and ear were apparently bitten off, Russian officials said.
The mammoth, which was initially thought to be about 10,000-years-old, is bound for Tokyo’s Jikei Medical University, where it will undergo a computed tomography scan, Uno said. CT scans allow scientists to get 3-D pictures so detailed they allow an almost surgical view into the body.
Researchers hope the scan will provide more information about the animal’s organs and internal structure.
The mammoth carcass and scan images are slated to go on public display Jan. 4 at an office building in central Tokyo, Uno said.
Scientists believe mammoths lived from 4.8 million years ago to about 4,000 years ago.
Studies suggest climate change or overkill by human hunters as possible causes for their extinction.
DAMN! If only I had purchased some G.M., Ford, U.S. Steel, Microsoft and a few other stocks back “about 4,000 years ago”.
By the way…It was overheard (no pun intended) said, that the Mammoth was delicious.
Hmmm. My first thought was to curse the climate change idiocy, but then I realised…. if climate change killed the mammoth, then man couldn’t have been responsible!
So Gaia eats her own.
Hag.
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 12 29 at 05:03 PM • permalink
Milk production has fallen from 1.4 billion liters to 9.23 billion liters
Wish my wallet would show such a decline. But the article in general shows some pretty ordinary journalism. It seems to have been written entirely from Landline, the ABC’s agricultural show. Landline featured the Goyder Line as a story recently.
Garrett is just another celebrity candidate failure.
Whether an Australian Democrat (celebrity) such as Cheryl Kernot or an ex-Rock star (celebrity) like Garrett, Labor sure can pick-em!
Garrett is a waste of space! And so was Cheryl Kernot! Although Gareth Evans would probably not agree about the latter.
On the other hand, global warming is apparently increasing the number of shark attacks. Warming: is there anything it can’t do?
the frozen mammoth’s trunk and eyes are virtually intact and it even has some fur, but its tail and ear were apparently bitten off, Russian officials said.
WRONWRIGHT!!!
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 12 29 at 06:56 PM • permalink
On the other hand, global warming is apparently increasing the number of shark attacks. Warming: is there anything it can’t do?
Cuckoo – that was amusing, apparently there are so many dangerous sharks off the Victorian coast yet they had to get a photo of a great white from South Africa for the article. Maybe Victorian sharks are just camera shy?
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 29 at 07:48 PM • permalink
#13, Kae, I am not silly, I am just heat-affected to to gerbil warming.
Posted by surfmaster on 2007 12 29 at 07:57 PM • permalink
#14, Paco, maybe he will be allowed to answer in question time after all, all long as he does it via Interpretive Dance?
Posted by spot_the_dog on 2007 12 29 at 08:40 PM • permalink
OK, 7th paragraph down (behind the times link.) There is a political pundit named George Megalogenius? Why haven’t we heard of this man before? About his snide comment on trucking, if you don’t have that, you don’t have an economy. I’m off to google George Megalogenius.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 12 29 at 10:32 PM • permalink
I see, somebody got his name wrong. Tried reading some of his articles but it’s pretty dry stuff. Football on in the background doesn’t help.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 12 29 at 10:46 PM • permalink
George – used to write for the Australian, once upon a time. I thought he was a little silly then, seems he’s gone way silly now.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 12 30 at 12:51 AM • permalink
As well the wanker should be.