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During the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. But the reason hasn't been clear.


In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two theories suggest why.

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