Research from Curtin University has found that pre-historic climate change does not explain the extinction of megafauna in North America at the end of the last Ice Age.
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2020
1
357
In a paper published in Science Advances, an international team of researchers have examined traits of marine megafauna species to better understand the potential ecological consequences of their extinction under different ...
Ecology
Apr 17, 2020
6
534
The mystery of the role of people and climate in the fate of Australian megafauna might have been solved in a breakthrough study published today.
Plants & Animals
Nov 25, 2019
0
78
Rivers and lakes cover just about one percent of Earth's surface, but are home to one third of all vertebrate species worldwide. At the same time, freshwater life is highly threatened. Scientists from the Leibniz-Institute ...
Ecology
Aug 8, 2019
2
7595
Giant beavers the size of black bears once roamed the lakes and wetlands of North America. Fortunately for cottage-goers, these mega-rodents died out at the end of the last ice age.
Archaeology
May 30, 2019
3
568
When we think of mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and saltmarshes, we don't immediately think of shark habitats. But the first global review of links between large marine animals (megafauna) and coastal wetlands is challenging ...
Plants & Animals
May 22, 2019
0
12
The Chinese giant salamander, the largest amphibian in the world, is not cute.
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2019
0
15
On many continents during the last ice age, typically from about 50,000 to 12,000 years ago, species of megafauna that had lived there for hundreds of thousands of years became extinct. Comparatively abruptly, it appears, ...
Ecology
Apr 15, 2019
0
12
Giant 10-foot-tall elephant birds, with eggs eight times larger than an ostrich's. Sloth lemurs bigger than a panda, weighing in at 350 pounds. A puma-like predator called the giant fosa.
Archaeology
Apr 1, 2019
1
75
At least 200 species of large animals are decreasing in number and more than 150 are under threat of extinction, according to new research that suggests humans' meat consumption habits are primarily to blame.
Ecology
Feb 6, 2019
0
23
