Australian scientists are investigating the debris of the prehistoric kangaroo and have found that these giants have been lost due to climatic changes and inability to adapt to a new environment.
Australian scientists first built the life of the giant prehistoric kangaroo in detail, who lived in Australia million -million years ago, and found out what caused their extinction.
The study is based on the examination of chemicals in the fossilized remains of animals. As paleontologist Scott Hoknall from the Quincland Museum explained, these data allow you to restore animal movement routes, their diet and death conditions.
It became the ancient kangaroo many times more modern: if the average weight of the kangaroo was 60 kg, then their ancestors weighed up to 170 kg. They lived in Australia about 5 million years ago and herbs.
The giant kangaroos lived mainly near the tropical forests that gave them food. But about 300 thousand years ago, due to sharp climatic changes, these forests began to disappear. Being more intense and unstable, the climate caused a reduction in the area of green zones, which, in turn, reduced the number of kangaroo populations.
“The giant Kangaroo’s desire to stay closer to the house during large climatic shocks 300 thousand years ago, probably contributed to their disappearance,” the researchers said.
Some massive kangaroo populations survive for several hours in other Australian regions and the territory of modern Papua-New Guinea. The last traces of these animals were dating 40 thousand years ago.
Another researcher, Anthony Dosetto, emphasized that the same method for reviewing fossils will help to better understand the fate of Australia’s entire Megafauna – from massive marsupials similar to vombats, to giant lizards who once led the continent.
“The debate of Australia’s megafauna extinction has been on the decades, but now we can consider them from the point of view of a separate individual and every species,” he said.
Earlier it was reported that in Australia a person died after the Kangaroo attack, which he held as a pet.
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