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Dated livestock bones tie Madagascar's megafauna losses to herds that spread 1,200 years ago
Oregon State and Columbia researchers found livestock spread across Madagascar about 1,200 years ago, as its large native herbivores declined. People may have arrived millennia earlier, so the timing argues against hunting alone as the cause of the extinctions.
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