News Article Fossil Find in Queensland

[NoPolys]

Anyone see this? and does anyone have the full published article?

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot ... 86031.html

[The yowie Mrx]

I was looking at some caves today didn't find any fossil's only 1 kangaroo skull and a back bone.

[deadpool]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensl ... 10bty.html <-- pretty much the same article, just dragged on a bit more with a few pics.

[NoPolys]

Thanks Deadpool, makes me kinda shudder to think about a sheep sized tree climber, good thing I wear a hat .

I guess my question would be if these large marsupials were at the top of the fossil pile, what's the possibility of a relic population still in the area?

[deadpool]

Lets just hope they're not drop bears

[NoPolys]

When I first moved over here, I had someone mention drop bears....... good thing they had a smile when they did, I never would step off the M-5 !!

[deadpool]

Its kinda amusing in a way, when you wiki "drop bear". It comes up with the following at the end:

See also:
Phantom kangaroo
Fictional national animals
Bunyip
Yowie
Queensland Tiger

The Drop Bear is a "cryptid"?

[cryptobotanica]

Drop bears are funny. But, an entirely normal koala can and will reduce your flesh to strips of putrid puss with its claws, if it feels the need to. Checking on "roadkill" and people that care for injured wildlife ("WIRES") can result in that kind of damage.

I suspect someone had one fall on their noggin a hundred years ago and it just spread...

QLD , despite the rampant plant growth if you give it half a chance, is a very ancient region and not as far removed from the rest of the world, as the rest of Australia is.

I've found odd things in caves or rock shelters... admittedly a three inch forest snail shell is not that interesting to most people but it's easily twice the size of what they are "meant" to be.

There hasn't been a decent effort to classify our local flora and fauna in a good 100 years. For example, red kangaroos do not come as far east as my place. Which mustb e amusing the the big red roo bloke that I nearly ran over a few months back just around the corner.

Those black "distribution" splotches on maps are handy but hardly foolproof... it's a BIG place, and very few people. Even fewer that bother reporting things to the relevant experts.

I can't see dozens on dozens of animals ALL falling down the same hole. They may have had a very coherent social structure meaning as one fell, another would go to help... or it may be they all tried to shelter there durng a fire / volcanic eruption / whathaveyou.

I have found a few things to confound the "experts" in QLD. Stones, and bones. It's a big place, and very old, and a lot of it for whatever reason (ownership, accessability,a line being drawn through history about 180 years ago...generally seeming a bit threatening) has never been properly explored or documented since old Willy McKenzie made his sketch of Aboriginal trade routes.