Who or what snuffed out the mammoths and other megafauna 13,000 years ago ... (See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American Ice Age mammals.) But some skeptics, Grayson among them ...

Indeed, evidence from ancient North American sites shows American Clovis hunter-gatherers at least occasionally killed or scavenged ice age megafauna such as mammoths. At such sites, scientists ...

For decades, scientists blamed the disappearance of megafauna on a changing climate. The last ice age ended abruptly, causing rapid warming and ecological upheaval. Yet, North America’s ...

Although the bears in ice age North America were the biggest and most powerful carnivores, they had some stiff competition. Twenty thousand years ago, lions roamed the entire planet. The American ...

To Faria, the discovery is a change of mind. Brazilian researchers used to adopt the North American view that megafauna were wiped out by overhunting. “Following that dominant view, we were so ...

The BC Megafauna Project looks at ice age animals found in British Columbia. Our aim is to find and document as many of them as possible, from both public and private collections. We want to know when ...

and other megafauna until about the end of the last ice age. Then they disappeared and their unique contribution to the North American landscape vanished with them. Until about six months ago.

Robin Bicknell, Director The Nature of Things documentary, Ice Bridge tells ... large selection of avian and megafauna, we settled on: the Arctodus simus (North American Short Faced Bear), the ...

Cara Kubiak is investigating the ecology of ice age megafauna in British Columbia through stable isotope analysis for her PhD. She hopes to better understand the nature and extent of niches occupied ...