> Texas is a very uninteresting place to discuss here.
> - Hans

Texas is about on the same latitude as the Northern Sahara.  Texas is also
about the same distance from the North Pole as South Africa or Southern
Australia is from the South Pole.  Many remains of Mammoth and other
Pleistocene megafauna have been found here and on the other continents at
similar latitudes.  Of course the extinction of Texas megafauna had to wait
for the arrival of a new predator - Man.  These extinctions in the Old World
occurred much earlier ( 40,000 years ago) and could not be explained by
merely by the latest inter-glacial warming that happened concurrently with
the New World extinctions of 12,000 years ago ( after all these species had
survived several other interglacials).  Perhaps it was the appearance of
Cro-Magnon Man who is distinguished by his neotinized features ( the same
morphological differences as between wolves and dogs and Neanderthals and
the more gracile Cro-Magnons ) and his new hunting tools and totemic
religion associated with hunting with dogs.

Never ask a man if he's from Texas.  If he is - he'll tell you soon enough.
If he's not - why needlessly embarrass him!

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"
http://www.neanderthin.com