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Humans played a large role in the demise of giant Pleistocene kangaroos

Doctoral candidate Larisa R. G. DeSantis was coauthor on the PNAS paper: “Extinction implications of a chenopod browse diet for a giant Pleistocene kangaroo”, which gives evidence that human hunting was the cause of this species ultimate extinction. This paper is featured on the BBC news website.