{"id":3700,"date":"2012-03-25T06:03:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-25T14:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2012-03-25T06:03:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T14:03:49","slug":"from-the-bbc-humans-killed-off-australias-giant-beasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/from-the-bbc-humans-killed-off-australias-giant-beasts\/","title":{"rendered":"(from the BBC)  &#8216;Humans killed off Australia&#8217;s giant beasts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AN EXCERPT:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Humans hunted Australia&#8217;s giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded&#8230;.The cause of the widespread extinction has provoked much debate, with climate change being one theory&#8230;However, scientists studied dung samples from 130,000 and 41,000 years ago, when humans arrived, and concluded hunting and fire were the cause.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To read the entire story, click on the top picture:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-17488447\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3701\" title=\"auextinct1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/auextinct1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"464\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/auextinct1.jpg 464w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/auextinct1-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another image<\/strong>:\u00a0 <em>&#8216;A browsing kangaroo was among the vertebrates hunted to extinction, scientists believe.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/25\/from-the-bbc-humans-killed-off-australias-giant-beasts\/auextinct2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3702\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3702\" title=\"auextinct2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/auextinct2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"304\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/auextinct2.jpg 304w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/auextinct2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-17488447<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AN EXCERPT: Humans hunted Australia&#8217;s giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded&#8230;.The cause of the widespread extinction has provoked much debate, with climate change being one theory&#8230;However, scientists studied dung samples from 130,000 and 41,000 years ago, when humans arrived, and concluded hunting and fire were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3710,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/3710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}