The Complexity of Ice Age Extinction Despite extensive research, the mystery of North America's Ice Age megafauna extinction remains unsolved. Current evidence is insufficient to definitively ...

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

And absence of other megafauna in kill sites doesn ... human arrival and subsequent large-animal extinctions was strong not just in North America but in many other parts of the world (see map ...

According to scientists, the first humans across North America during the last Ice Age ... that her diet was mainly made up of meat from megafauna, the largest animals in an ecosystem.

North America kept its deer ... Another challenge to the Flannery model of Australian megafauna extinction is more mechanistic: How could people armed with only spears and fire have eradicated ...

As visitors trudged through a snow-covered hiking trail at Lake Metroparks’ Penitentiary Glen Reservation on a cold Presidents Day, they learned about large animals that lived in Ohio during a ...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

Scientists have found proof that the early humans who lived in North America during the ... that humans played a big role in the extinction of many megafauna during the last Ice Age.

“Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of Quaternary and future extinctions ... The Early Settlement of North America: The Clovis Era. Cambridge University Press. The Younger Dryas Mystery ...

Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths, survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the root causes ...

When the temperatures drop, ice sheets spread from the Poles and cover much of North America and Europe ... and most of these so-called megafauna went extinct. Only a handful of smaller, though ...

We are focusing on extinct species from Europe and northern Asia, along with some from North America, including: We are using large compilations of carefully audited radiocarbon dates for each mammal ...