Much later in Madagascar and New Zealand mass extinctions of large animals also followed with human colonisation.

And of course, Mars has been the subject of much focus of scientific study - in particular - about possible human colonisation.

Near perfectly preserved, the bones yielded DNA that has helped to answer questions about the earliest human colonisation of the New World.

New archaeological evidence places human colonisation in the 4th to 6th centuries AD, at least 300-500 years earlier than previously demonstrated.