Aboriginal Australians Co Existed With The Megafauna For At Leastођ Aboriginal australians co existed with megafauna for at least 17,000 years. on an ancient willandra lake shore a thylacine and a giant procoptodon goliah are in the foreground. behind them are people and a herd of zygomaturus. image credit: laurie beirne. the extinction of the giant reptiles, marsupials and birds that once called australia home. The zygomaturus specimen shows that people and megafauna co existed for at least 17,000 years. indeed the species seems to have existed up to the period where the climate began to change.
Aboriginal Australians Co Existed With The Megafauna For At Leastођ Aboriginal people arrived in the willandra some 50,000 years ago. it is always possible that earlier evidence for the first australians in that landscape will be found in the future. the zygomaturus specimen shows that people and megafauna co existed for at least 17,000 years. Jane mcdonald a model of zygomaturus trilobus at mungo national park in australia. contrary to prevailing thought, new research shows that early humans in australia lived alongside giant reptiles, marsupials, and birds for thousands of years before these megafauna went extinct. researchers had assumed that these enormous animals went extinct. Some researchers argue aboriginal people were responsible for driving aboriginal australians co existed with the megafauna for at persisted from at least 26,000 years ago to the end of the. The zygomaturus specimen shows that people and megafauna co existed for at least 17,000 years. indeed the species seems to have existed up to the period where the climate began to change dramatically, known as the last glacial cycle leading up to the last glacial maximum. of course our date at 33,000 years ago does not represent the extinction.
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