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Geotripper: It Isn't Just Deer and Antelope; Horses at Home on the Range
| | nautil.us
Human Hunters Drove Large Mammals to Extinction
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| | Recent studies show it wasn't the climate that did them in.
| | theconversation.com
Horses, camels and deer get a bad rap for razing plants - but our new research shows they're no worse than native animals
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| | Introduced water buffalo and camels trash native plants - don't they? Our research shows megafauna herbivores have the same impact wherever they are.
| | inquisitivebiologist.com
Book review - End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals | The Inquisitive Biologist
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| | Both a feast for the eyes and accessibly written, this is a fantastic book that carefully weighs up arguments for and against the fascinating but contentious idea that our ancestors hunted the Pleistocene megafauna into extinction.
| | www.space.com
White dwarfs are 'heavy metal' zombie stars cannibalizing their dead planetary systems | Space
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| Zombie white dwarf stars keep their heavy metal exteriors fresh by cannibalizing objects in their dead planetary systems, like comets and asteroids.