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Humans have dominated this planet for tens of thousand years. One study showed the arrival of people in Australia about 47,000 years ago caused the extinction of marsupials such as the giant ...

The fate of humanity might have looked radically different if Ice Age titans like the mammoth and saber-toothed cat had survived. Imagine a world where the megafauna of the Ice Age survived, not just ...

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Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously compromised by human activity. That is the view of an international team of 18 ...