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Elmer Fudd: "If I don't get dat pesky wabbit dis time I'll just go ekstinkt!
The Neanderthals May Have Died Out Because of ... Bunnies?
The dinosaurs, per the popular theory, were done in by an object fitting to their size and splendor: an asteroid.
But what about those other earthly old-timers, the Neanderthals? How did they meet their collective fate? According to a new proposal, they were done in by objects considerably less celestial than an asteroid, and also considerably more adorable: bunnies.
Per the hypothesis, proposed by John Fa of the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and published in the Journal of Human Evolution, small game -- vewy tiny wabbits chief among them -- might have made the difference, for Neanderthals, between feast and famine.
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