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16 lut 2021 · The disappearance of many North American megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene is a contentious topic. While the proposed causes for megafaunal extinction are varied, most researchers fall...
2 cze 2020 · Hence, these data suggest that human hunting of large mammals, likely together with climate change at the end of the Pleistocene, led to the extinction of megafauna in North America.
1 gru 2023 · While late-Pleistocene extinctions of Ice Age megafauna in North America occurred throughout the Younger Dryas stadial, a new study from researchers at Rancho La Brea pinpoints a stark and dramatic finality that befell the Rancholabrean megafauna of Southern California before this, during the Bolling-Allerod Warming.
9 cze 2024 · New research explores the unresolved mystery of the extinction of ancient North America's megafauna, highlighting new research using ZooMS to analyze fragmented bones from the Smithsonian's collections.
24 lis 2023 · The worldwide extinction of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene is evident from the fossil record, with dominant theories suggesting a climate, human or combined impact...
31 maj 2024 · 50,000 years ago, North America was ruled by megafauna. Lumbering mammoths roamed the tundra, while forests were home to towering mastodons, fierce saber-toothed tigers and enormous wolves.
9 lis 2020 · As the Pleistocene came to an end in North America, 38 genera of mammals vanished (Table 1). The majority are designated as megafauna, with a body mass over ∼45 kg, including several proboscideans (mammoth, mastodon, gomphothere) weighing more than 4,500 kg.
