Climate Change Killed the Giant Kangaroo
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Giant prehistoric kangaroos and wombat-like creatures the size of hippopotamuses were not killed off by hunters but by climate change and starvation, an Australian study has found.
The study, based on the re-excavation of a site at Lake Menindee, found evidence that the last Ice Age was followed by a drought that caused the animals to starve about 55,000 years ago.
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