Andy Adcock
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Demise of the Elphant Bird (1 Viewer)
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Fred Ruhe
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Funny how the secondary headline gets the import of the discovery for elephant birds exactly wrong ("Prehistoric humans are under suspicion of wiping out the largest birds that ever lived after fossilised bones were discovered with telltale cut marks"). What the discovery suggests is that hunting by prehistoric humans alone may not have been responsible for the demise of the elephant bird. As the abstract from the article Fred provided says "This revision of Madagascar’s prehistory suggests prolonged human-faunal coexistence with limited biodiversity loss."
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Fred Ruhe
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