By Corey J. A. Bradshaw et al./The Conversation Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You’re an accomplished sailor of the small watercraft you and your fellow villagers make, and you live off both the sea and the land. But times have been difficult — there just isn’t the same amount of game or fish around as when you were a child. Maybe it’s time to look elsewhere for food. Now imagine going farther than ever before in your little boat, accompanied maybe by a few others, when suddenly you spot something on the horizon. Is that an island? Of Bunyips and Other Beasts: Evidence of Extinct Megafauna Displayed in Art and Stories Short Lived Clovis Tools May Have Killed Off North American Megafauna The western coast of Cyprus. (CJA Bradshaw / Flinders University) Read moreSection: NewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later