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Australia's last giants

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The huge creatures that once roamed Australia were wiped out at about the same time. From the latest analyses, these extinctions look more than ever to be a matter of not what but who dunnit.

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Diamond, J. Australia's last giants. Nature 411, 755–757 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/35081231

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