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The game's structure is under attack, Lethal said; Round 23 match released; Demon Lever is back

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He said Ginnivan had been the victim on Sunday, but it was not the referee’s fault, it was a decision born of a philosophical shift in the AFL. Matthews said his initial thought when he saw the incident was to ask himself, what did they do to the game? “And when I say ‘they’, I mean (AFL chairman) Richard Goyder and the commission which is the only body that actually changes the rules and [AFL CEO) Gillon McLachlan and his coaching cohort of advisers that are making the game easier for the tackler and harder for the bloke with the ball,” Matthews said. “It got my blood boiling. Every other player in the competition would have got that free kick … I felt sick. That was virtually not only a high contact headlock, it was bordering on unduly rough play.” Last Tuesday the AFL responded to the increasing number of players drawing free kicks for head high contact with a statement that outlined the directive to umpires. Mason Redman’s high takle on Jack Ginnivan. Credit: Twitter / Seven Networ

Controversial prehistoric egg identified as the last 'demon death duck'

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The only nearly intact shell of Genyornis has been found. It was discovered by N. Spooner and collected by Gifford H. Miller, South Australia. The presence of four holes in the egg indicates that it was preceded by a sweeping follicle. Credit: Gifford H. Miller Researchers identify ancient bird behind giant prehistoric egg Years of scientific debate has been resolved in Australia about which animal was the true mother of the giant primordial egg. In a recent study, scientists from the University of Copenhagen Their global colleagues showed that the egg could only be the last in a series of rare megafauna known as “death devil ducks”. Consider living next to a bird that weighs 200 kg, is 2 m long and has a large beak. This is the situation of the first people to settle in Australia about 65,000 years ago. Junior Newtonian the last member of the “demon duck”, co-existed there with our ancestors as a species of the now-extinct duck-like bird family. Illustration of Genyornis Newtoni