Did humans wipe out Australia's big beasts?

[sophiedb]

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

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[dreamguy]

Wait, was it just the wombats and kangaroos that were giant, or where the owls and parrots giant too? The articles don't clarify that.

It's nice to see a scientist get quoted in a report with the common sense statements that other people are jumping to unsupported conclusions on almost no evidence. It really gets distressing to see the long line of wild guesses that get pushed as firm conclusions in journals and more mainstream news.

[sparklescamp]

I read that theory/concept in one of those coffee table books published thirty years ago.