Search results
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 · Large-scale changes in global climate at the end of the Pleistocene significantly impacted ecosystems across North America.
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...
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.
14 lut 2023 · Thus, it is probable that the widespread extinction of herbivorous megafauna in the late Pleistocene influenced atmospheric gas exchange and global climate. Several authors have calculated the enteric production of methane by megafauna at the terminal Pleistocene.
A plan to restore animals that disappeared 13,000 years ago from Pleistocene North America offers an alternative conservation strategy for the twenty-first century, argueJosh Donlan and colleagues.
As the Pleistocene came to an end in North America, 38 genera of mammals vanished . 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.
