Iam one of those tragics who decided when I was five that I was going to be a palaeontologist. But when I went through my undergrad, the university didn't offer a specific palaeontology degree. Instead, I majored in zoology and geology – because when you put rocks and animals together, you get palaeontology.
The Australian fossil record is pretty patchy. The bulk of the evidence shows that there was a big megafaunal cohort until about 45,000 years ago. But by 40,000 years ago they were just about all gone – the only
