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Published online 30 May 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050523-11
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Did climate shift kill giant Australian animals?
Bones suggest that early humans did not ruthlessly wipe out huge beasts.
An Australian research group may ease humanity's collective conscience over a spate of prehistoric extinctions on the southern continent. The die-off, they say, was not the rapacious work of newly arrived humans, but was due rather to changing climate.
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