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A Giant Kangaroo Bone Is Challenging the Idea That Humans Wiped Out Australia’s Megafauna

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

Ancient humans butchered giant elephants with thumb-sized tools

Mammoths were not the only enormous beasts ancient humans hunted. Elephant ancestors were also on the menu. While analyzing over 300 skeletal remains excavated in northwestern Rome, a team of ...

Human skull found on Indiana riverbank is over 4,000 years old, coroner says

A portion of an ancient human skull was discovered earlier this year along a riverbank in rural Indiana, local officials ...

Hunters or collectors? New evidence challenges claim Australia's First Peoples sent large animals extinct

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...
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Something Other Than Geological Processes Or Humans Created These Caves

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