New Ages for the Last Australian Megafauna: Continent-Wide Extinction About 46,000 Years Ago

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• Publication year

  2001

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  2001-06-08

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.1060264PMID 11397939
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