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Cannibalism May Have Wiped Out Neanderthals
by Jennifer Viegas, Discovery NewsFeb. 27, 2008 -- A Neanderthal-eat-Neanderthal world may have spread a mad cow-like disease that weakened and reduced populations of the large Eurasian human, thereby contributing to its extinction, according to a new theory based on cannibalism that took place in more ( Read more... )

To animals unfortunate enough to fall in, it was a death trap. To palaeontologists, it was a sensational discovery. Now the first detailed analysis of a spectacular cache of fossilised prehistoric "marsupial lions", giant wombats and kangaroos, owls and parrots discovered in a cave in Australia suggests that humans killed off the continent's ( Read more... )

The early hominid Paranthropus robustus might not be as specialized an eater as researchers thought. Using a new laser technique, anthropologists peered into the teeth of these hominids to discover that the primate actually ate a variety of foods.

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12 October 2006, New Scientist
Bob Holmes

Humans are undoubtedly the most dominant species the Earth has ever known. In just a few thousand years we have swallowed up more than a third of the planet's land for our cities, farmland and pastures. By some estimates, we now commandeer 40 per cent of all its productivity. And we're leaving quite a ( Read more... )

Study: Humans Didn't Wipe Out Mammoths
Article HereMay 10, 2006 - Recent evidence suggests people may not deserve the blame for the wave of animal extinctions - which included the woolly mammoth, wild horse Equus ferus, and saber-toothed tiger - that arrived with the end of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago ( Read more... )