megafauna in A Sentence

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    Megafauna refers to all animals living on land.

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    So it seems that people lived alongside the Megafauna for thousands of years.

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    So it was with Megafauna in Australia and America, with Neanderthals in Europe and Asia.

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    In doing so we have created a new theory of how, why and when these Malagasy Megafauna went extinct.

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    Small populations of Megafauna lived on in isolated pockets for another few centuries, but their fate was likely already sealed.

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    Scientists know that over the past 40,000 years, most of Earth's Megafauna- that is, animals human-size or larger- have gone extinct.

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    The result was a rapid rise in the size of the human population- and that's what we conclude spelled disaster for the Megafauna.

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    Despite calls for a fifth convention two decades ago, military conflict continues to destroy Megafauna, push species to extinction, and poison water resources.".

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    Bringing together new data on land use changes, climatic histories, genetics, fossil ages and butchery of the Megafauna, we call this change“the subsistence shift hypothesis.”.

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    With no significant change in the climate, some point to the arrival of humans on the island as a possible cause of the Megafauna population crash.

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    Long ago, South America was ruled by Megafauna, giant animals that lived until humans arrived and apparently hunted them to extinction, around 10,000 to 20,000 years ago.

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    If there was no obvious climate shift and humans lived alongside and sustainably hunted the Megafauna for up to 9,000 years, what could have triggered the population crash?

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    It turns out that the impact on the Megafauna of larger human populations hunting just to supplement their diet was greater than the impact of smaller human populations relying more heavily on the native animals as a vital food source.

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    By about 30,000 years ago, however, most of these‘Megafauna' had disappeared from Sahul as part of a global mass extinction that saw the end of nearly all of the super-sized animals that had evolved to survive in extreme Ice Age climates.

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    By about 30,000 years ago, however, most of these‘Megafauna' had disappeared from the Sahul as part of a global mass extinction that saw the end of nearly all of the super-sized animals that had evolved to survive in extreme Ice Age climates.

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