Australian Pleistocene megafauna mass extinction - thylacoleo carnifex

Climate Change Caused Australian Megafauna Extinction, Not Aboriginal Humans

By Ashik Siddique | May 06, 2013 11:58 PM EDT

New analysis suggests that Australian megafauna were wiped out by climate change in the late Pleistocene era; Aboriginal human activity was not the primary cause of the massive animal extinction.

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Single Microbe May Have Triggered World's Largest Mass Extinction

By Makini Brice | Dec 17, 2012 02:47 PM EST

About 251 million years ago, 90 percent of the Earth’s species became extinct.

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