Around 40,000 years ago, the giant kangaroo disappeared from Australia. So did Diprotodon ( rhinoceros-size wombats ) and Palorchestes ( tapirlike marsupials ) as well as supersize birds, reptiles and some 50 other so-called megafauna--big animals
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Feed SubscriptionFirst of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor? (preview)
Sometime between three million and two million years ago, perhaps on a primeval sa
Read More »First of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor? (preview)
Sometime between three million and two million years ago, perhaps on a primeval sa
Read More »First of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor? (preview)
Sometime between three million and two million years ago, perhaps on a primeval sa
Read More »A Carbon Tax to Fly to Paris? U.S.-Europe Showdown on Airline Emissions Begins
If European lawmakers have their way, by next year any American flying from Boston to Paris will have to pay for the plane's carbon emissions over Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, the Atlantic Ocean and France.
Read More »The Buck Stops Here: Do We Really Need to Cull Deer Herds?
Dear EarthTalk : Our community is talking of culling local deer herd numbers.
Read More »Gene Study Challenges Human Origins in Eastern Africa
By Matt Kaplan A genetic analysis of modern hunter-gatherer populations in Africa suggests that humans evolved in the south of the continent, rather than the east, as has been thought. [More]
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