Rat Remains Suggest Humans Came Late to New Zealand

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 - 18:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Polynesian explorers and possibly their rat stowaways arrived on the Pacific island in A.D. 1280, new carbon-dating analyses show.

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