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A photo of a man holding a fossil.

An illustration of a giant kangaroo from hundreds of thousands of years ago.

A photo of Mt Etna in Queensland

"And a big kangaroo, who can't move these now larger distances between resources, and therefore that's why we assume they go extinct."

"If we apply this to more fossil sites across Australia, we can have a more inclusive and nuanced interpretation of the unique factors driving local extinction events, rather than that kind of unknown that we have now."
An image of a giant kangaroo tooth used in the research.

"It's essential to painting a more complete picture of megafauna."
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