HobgoblinKhanate t1_j0wdkre wrote
Reply to comment by amp1212 in Discovery identifies Australia as birthplace of all modern mammals by geoxol
Godwanaland included Africa and South America right? Are they literally calling this whole place Australia?
amp1212 t1_j0wfce8 wrote
>Godwanaland included Africa and South America right? Are they literally calling this whole place Australia?
Yes, but with the "they" being the journalists at Australian Geographic, not the authors of the original scientific publication. So you can blame it on them; the original authors don't make that mistake.
Its why I make myself a pest here to call out crap pop science writing, which so often takes a good and carefully written finding, and then makes it worse.
To be fair, because people love imagining long ago landscapes, there's a lot of confusion about "the place where we find fossils now" - and "the place where these animals lived, at the time they were laid down"
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