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Lake Eyre: pretty dry today, but before 50,000 years ago it was an inland sea teeming with life. Matt Malone/Wikimedia Commons

Drying inland seas probably helped kill Australia’s megafauna

Tim Cohen, University of Wollongong; Gerald Nanson, University of Wollongong; John Jansen, University of Potsdam, and Joshua Larsen, The University of Queensland

Huge beasts roamed Australia before suddenly dying out around 50,000 years ago. New research shows that at this time, vast inland lakes dried up, potentially explaining the megafauna’s demise.

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