Human population boom led to Madagascar’s megafauna extinction: Study

Mongabay
Apr 4, 2019, 1:36 pm204 pts
Until about 1,000 years ago, Madagascar was home to fantastical creatures like elephant birds, giant fossas and large-bodied lemurs. Unlike their present-day cousins, they were enormous — bigger than the average human. Then, in a span of a few hundred years (between A.D. 700 and 1000), these large animals,…

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