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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 ...
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Researchers make stunning discovery after analyzing feces of critically endangered tortoise: 'Could trigger numerous negative effects'

Since the tortoises' digestion process can take 28 days, the researchers are worried about the effects of the trash.

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 ...

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 ...