Jabiru birds fly past a herd of Columbian Mammoths as they make their way across a river delta. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America's largest ...

The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals. On any day these hunter-gatherers might encounter a giant, snarling saber-toothed cat ready to pounce, or a group ...

It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed. For a long time, the overall consensus has been that mammalian megafauna – giant mammals that roamed the ...

Even such mythical detectives as Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot would have difficulty trying to find the culprit that killed the mammoths, mastodons and other megafauna that once roamed North ...

The end of thePleistocene, marked by the Younger Dryas (YD) onset around 12.8 thousand years ago, witnessed the sudden extinction of many North American megafauna and the collapse of the Clovis ...

Feb. 16 (UPI) --For years, scientists have waffled on what exactly drove North America's megafauna to extinction, debating whether the blame belonged to overhunting, climate change or both. In a new ...

Smithsonian scientist’s research illustrates how North American ecosystems are still reeling from the megafaunal extinction that closed the ice ages Jack Tamisiea During the late Pleistocene, ...

The appearance of megafauna during the Pleistocene can be explained by the abundance of food that became available after the dinosaurs died off. Herbivorous mammals (e.g. bison, mammoth, etc.) grew so ...

Functional trait diversity is increasingly used to model future changes in community structure despite a poor understanding of community disassembly's effects on functional diversity. By tracking the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Christopher R. Moore, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) The earliest ...