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Giant animals vanished from Madagascar after humans arrived – Earth.com
About 500 to 1,500 years ago, Madagascar lost nearly all of its megafauna, including giant tortoises, Dodo birds, lemurs the size of gorillas, and 10-foot-tall …
About 500 to 1,500 years ago, Madagascar lost nearly all of its megafauna, including giant tortoises, Dodo birds, lemurs the size of gorillas, and 10-foot-tall elephant birds that weighed half a ton. While the exact cause of these extinctions remains a mystery, a new study from the University of Innsbruck reports that human activities likely compounded the impacts of climate change when Madagascar’s giant animals simultaneously disappeared.
Previous theories suggest that populations of the ove…
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