Giant killer lizard fossil shines new light on early Australians

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Science Daily

Giant killer lizard fossil shines new light on early Australians

As if life wasn't hard enough during the last Ice Age, a new study has found Australia's first human inhabitants had to contend with giant killer lizards. Researchers working in Central Queensland were amazed when they unearthed the first evidence that Australia's early human inhabitants and giant apex predator lizards had overlapped.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150923134114.htm

[Spitfire of ATJ]

1. Great, now all of those cheap caveman movies where they used iguanas for dinos are accurate.

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2. Australia is just scary as far as it's animal life.

I want to be a citizen scientist!

He said a crew of volunteer citizen scientists helped with the research by sorting and sieving specimens.