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Monsters We Met - Extinctions and evidence contents

About 100,000 years ago, humans first ventured out of Africa. The world they entered was the domain of giants: monstrous marsupials, huge eagles, savage short-faced bears and the terrifying 5.5-metre-long ripper lizard, Megalania.

These monsters now exist only in our imagination or as long-dead bones in a museum. In some areas of the world over, 70% of large mammals became extinct around the time that humans arrived on the continent. But why? Was it man's arrival or was it coincidence?

Monsters We Met - Man the hunter

Man the hunter

Did humans hunt the megafauna into extinction after only a few centuries?


Monsters We Met - In balance with nature?

In balance with nature?

Some experts think human hunting didn't eradicate giant animals.


Monsters We Met - Other causes

Other causes

What other theories have been proposed to account for long-vanished species?



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