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Phoenix666 [soylentnews.org] writes:

New research shows Australia’s first human inhabitants grappled with massive predatory lizards [csmonitor.com].

Researchers working in Central Queensland discovered the first evidence ever to indicate that Australia’s early human inhabitants and giant apex predator lizards lived together during the same era, according to Gilbert Price, a vertebrate palaeoecologist at Australia's University of Queensland.
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The researchers dated the bone at about 50,000 years old by using radiocarbon and uranium thorium techniques. That would coincide with the arrival of Australia’s Aboriginal inhabitants.
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Price speculated that the bone could be from a Komodo dragon or the extinct Megalania monitor lizard, an even bigger species that weighed about 1,100 pounds and could grow nearly 20 feet long.

Wait...the the Institute for Creation Research [icr.org] got it right?

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