Human exterminations of large animals ‘disrupting millions of years of natural balance’ - The Independent

Sizes of herbivores and omnivores have plummeted roughly 100-fold since the emergence of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens

Humans propensity to kill large mammals from plant-eating herbivores to meat-eating carnivores is resulting in losses of species from both groups, a study says. It may also be "fundamentally" alter… [+4652 chars]

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