Australian giants survived man for a time: study

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 14:14 in Paleontology & Archaeology

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Giant marsupials, reptiles and flightless birds that once roamed Australia became extinct about 40,000 years ago, later than had been thought and some 5,000 years after humans arrived, a new study suggests.

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