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Dodos killed by fatal combination of humans and MEGADROUGHT – AlKhaleej Today
Dodos killed by fatal combination of humans and MEGADROUGHT
Released: 7:00 p.m. BST, October 16, 2020 | Updated: 7:00 p.m. BST, October 16, 2020Giant creatures from Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands were killed by a lethal combination of human activity and a megadrought, a mineral sample study found.
The creatures, including dodos and giant tortoises, survived millennia of repeated periods of drought until humans arrived and eventually wiped them out.
Both islands suffered a megafauna crash between 1,500 and 500 years ago, in which important large…
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