Giant Prehistoric "Kangaroos" Killed Off by Humans

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - 20:35 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Giant kangaroo-like beasts and thousand-pound marsupial hippos went extinct on the Australian island more than 40,000 years ago from hunting, not climate change, scientists say.

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