A GROUP of intrepid souls recently disappeared into a hole –
no, not the Canberra press corps – and stumbled upon a wealth of old bones and
fossils. There is no doubt their discovery is an interesting find, but there
are some who are finding it far more interesting than bits of long-dead
diprotodon and other extinct wotnots would suggest – palaeontologist
Gilbert Price most of all. Having long since taken a leaf from fellow bone
buff Tim Flannery’s playbook (and
a swag of climate-related research grants), Gilbert reckons the cache
will help him save the world from global warming.
Price with the jawbone of a creature that went extinct before the Carbon Tax could save it.
