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The first Australians ate giant eggs of huge flightless birds, ancient proteins confirm

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Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent's earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-meter tall bird that disappeared into extinction over 47,000 years ago.

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