Climate change, not human activity, led to megafauna extinction
Monday, May 6, 2013 - 20:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Most species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia had disappeared by the time people arrived, a major review of the available evidence has concluded. The research challenges the claim that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna in a proposed "extinction window" between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, and points the finger instead at climate change.