"What happened to the Big Marsupials of Australia, what does that have to do with the simultaneous rise and fall of the Sierra Nevada?" was the question on Thursday, in room Science-422.
Geology instructor Roger Chambers went on to ask: "What's your favorite Marsupial?" to break the ice and show how little we, the audience, actually knew about them. I personally was not aware that Australia was a devastated ecosystem built around them. He, like many experts believes that it was unlikely that they got to Australia via swimming from Asia. What he did believe was that they migrated throughout one the world's super-continents of the past Gondwana approximately 200 million years ago. The time of the giant birds