Stone Age people lived virtually side-by-side with now-extinct animals in western Australia for 6,000 years, a new study has revealed. The finding quashes the proposal by some anthropologists that ancient settlers rapidly hunted the creatures—including a hornless, rhinolike creature, a flightless bird that resembled an emu, and a short-faced kangaroo—out of existence.
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