A drying climate and the arrival of people together finished off Australia’s megafauna.
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The first people to make it to Australia could have navigated their way by sea crossing, reaching the north-west coastline of the island continent more than 50,000 years ago.
A new study pushes back the first known evidence of human activity in Australia – to 65,000 years ago.
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