16h 42min, mar 30, 2018 y - 40,000-35,000 years ago… First mass extinction
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40,000-35,000 years ago… First mass extinction of large mammals caused by humans, in Australia/New Guinea. Giant kangaroos, rhino-like marsupials, and marsupial leopard; tame, unused to humans, unafraid of them; killed off or else indirectly eliminated furring first few thousand years of human settlement.
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Bernardo Jimenez M.
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