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Climate Change, Not Human Activity, Led to Megafauna Extinction
2013-05-07 03:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Most species of gigantic animals that once roamed Australia had disappeared by the time people arrived, a major review of the available evidence has concluded. The research challenges the claim that humans were primarily responsible for the demise of the megafauna in a proposed "extinction window" between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago, and points the finger instead at climate change. An international team led by the University of New South Wales, and including researchers at the University of...
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