Australian paleontologists discovered fossils of eight unknown species of kangaroo in the Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia. This indicates that not only was the climate change by which, these species did not survive.

We found the remains of a mollusk and 69 vertebrates, including eight kangaroos that lived in the middle Pleistocene, makes 800,000 and 200,000 years ago, informed the researcher J. Gavin Prideaux to the British scientific journal Nature.

Prideaux and colleagues suggest that an increasing number of fires turned the area into a mountain vegetation rich in species and emprobrecido presume that the disappearance of most herbivores occurred in a manner similar to that generated in other areas in southern Australia, they noted the paleontologists.

Still unable to determine the exact time of the extinction of several species on the Nullarbor Plain. Most of the large animals in South Australia disappeared from the face of the Earth about 40,000 years ago, after the first humans reached the south coast of the continent.

Sources: Hawtaction

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