Study on Different Megafauna Species Reveal They Coexisted With Humans and Were Here Much Before Than Thought Experts have ...
About 65 million years ago, dinosaurs lumbered through forests. After they went extinct, things changed — and the effects are still being felt.
As the last ice age was ending, Australian megafauna that included giant kangaroos went extinct, and it is even more ...
New research reveals that the extinction of New Zealand’s giant, flightless moa was inevitable after human arrival. Using ...
A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with ...
“In South America,” the authors explain, “the extinction of megafauna has been attributed to many causes, climate/environmental changes or even the synergy between these hypotheses.
What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric world? For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago.
His research has centered on the extinctions of Pleistocene megafauna, like the aforementioned mammoths and sloths. But in a recent paper, he and other researchers went back even further — 65 ...