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As early as 18,000 years ago, early foragers in the montane rainforests of New Guinea preferentially collected eggs of cassowaries (Casuarius sp.) in late stages of embryonic growth and may have hatched them to rear chicks, according to an analysis of ancient eggshells from two Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene rock shelter …

New evidence indicates the primary cause of megafaunal extinction in Australia 45,000 years ago was likely a result of humans, not climate change. A paper on the subject is published in the journal Nature Communications. A range of now extinct megafauna that was present when humans first arrived in Australia. …

Fossilized teeth from a newly identified species of extinct shark that lived 20 million years ago (early Miocene) were found in the mid-latitudinal zones along the Pacific (Japan, California, and Peru) and western Atlantic (North Carolina) coasts. Megalolamna paradoxodon lived in the same oceans megatoothed sharks inhabited. Image credit: Kenshu …