Two Tasmanian devil specimens came out of Juukan 2, the Pilbara rock shelter Rio Tinto blew up in 2020, one dated to about 7,000 years ago and the other to between 42,500 and 47,115, the first direct evidence devils ever lived in that part of Australia, though the authors call the older identification tentative

Two Tasmanian devil specimens came out of Juukan 2, the Pilbara rock shelter Rio Tinto blew up in 2020, one dated to about 7,000 years ago and the other to between 42,500 and 47,115, the first direct evidence devils ever lived in that part of Australia, though the authors call the older identification tentative

The clean-up-crew story that ran with the news rests on ten chewed bones out of more than eight thousand, and the dingoes blamed for the devils' disappearance appear in the paper's own data exactly once.