Global megafauna study calls for conservation rethink
Tuesday, August 15, 2017 - 06:32
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It's hard to imagine an Australia ruled by hippopotamus-sized wombats (Diprotodon) and three-metre-tall kangaroos (Procoptodon golian). The continent lost all native megafauna to the Pleistocene extinctions, tens of thousands of years ago.