The megafauna demise
Channel: Evan Pickett
Date: 2016-09-19

Large mammals have been disappearing since humans first left Africa. The Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) is just one of the more recent examples of this extinction event.

The excellent megafauna art was created by Nobu Tamura, published to Wikimedia (links below) and released on the following licenses.

Diprotodon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diprotodon11122.jpg
Attribution 3.0 Unported

Zygomaturus 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomaturus#/media/File:Zygomaturus_BW.jpg
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Palorchestes azael
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palorchestes#/media/File:Palorchestes_BW.jpg
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Genyornis newtonii
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genyornis#/media/File:Genyornis_BW.jpg
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Varanus priscus
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Varanus_priscus_BW.jpg
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Thylacaleo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsupial_lion#/media/File:Thylacoleo_BW.jpg
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