Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...
Scientists have unravelled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before palaeolithic humans ...
A bestiary for Pleistocene biologists / Paul S. Martin and John E. Guilday -- Introduction / Edward S. Deevey Jr. -- Prehistoric overkill / Paul S. Martin -- Differential extinction during ...
Radiocarbon dating on bones in the La Brea Tar Pits lead archaeologists to warn that history may be repeating itself. The end of the last Ice Age also marked the end for more than three dozen genera ...
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The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...
Fungal spores found in the dung of Pleistocene megafauna reveal that large animals in the Colombian Andes went extinct in two “waves” Shiny Mottlegill (Panaeolus semiovatus), a species of coprophilous ...
Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...
Flinders University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a topic of ...
Associate Curator, La Brea Tar Pits; Adjunct Faculty, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles Emily Lindsey receives funding from the National ...
Aug. 18 (UPI) --Over the past decade, deadly wildfires have become increasingly common because of both human-caused climate change and disruptive land management practices. Southern California, where ...
The end of the last Ice Age also marked the end for more than three dozen genera of large mammals in North America, from mammoths and mastodons to bison and saber-toothed cats. Details concerning the ...