A bestiary for Pleistocene biologists / Paul S. Martin and John E. Guilday -- Introduction / Edward S. Deevey Jr. -- Prehistoric overkill / Paul S. Martin -- Differential extinction during ...

Lessons for the future Studying the causes and consequences of the Pleistocene extinctions in California can provide valuable context for understanding today's climate and biodiversity crises.

Elephants are plagued by the same deadly bacteria that infected mammoths, genetic experts have found. A study of mammoth ...

The extinction of large herbivores such as mammoths could explain massive prehistoric changes in vegetation and landscape structure. But it has wider implications, explaining more frequent fires ...

Sudden deaths : the chronology of terminal Pleistocene megafaunal extinction / Stuart Fiedel -- Estimates of Clovis-era megafaunal populations and their extinction risks / Gary Haynes -- Paleobiology ...

When it comes to causing extinctions, early humans were likely not the jerks that we are today, a new study finds. Early humans relatives have lived on islands since the early Pleistocene epoch (2 ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

Climate Change Plus Human Pressure Caused Large Mammal Extinctions In Late Pleistocene Date: October 4, 2004 Source: University Of California - Berkeley Summary: A University of California ...

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Scientists have unraveled a mystery about the disappearance of dwarf hippos and elephants that once roamed the picturesque landscape on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus before paleolithic humans ...