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Humans Played Key Role in Megafauna Extinctions, New Research Confirms


Across the last 50,000 years land vertebrate faunas have experienced severe losses of large species (megafauna), with most extinctions occurring in the Late Pleistocene and Early to Middle Holocene.

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