Humans and The Megafauna Extinctions: A 50,000-Year Cautionary Tale
Around 50,000 years ago, two-thirds of the world’s megafauna became extinct. It wasn't just Wooly mamoths and Sabre-toothed tigers that disappeared. In Australia, 2,500kg Diprotodons the size of cars, towering Genyornis birds, and the fearsome Thylacoleo marsupial lion all vanished. We lost 90 per …