Humans to Blame For Megafauna Extinctions, New Study Suggests. Story by Michelle Starr • 10mo. Once upon a time, our world was home to many giants. Actually, it wasn't so long ago.

Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years Ago. Story by Dr. Russell Moul • 3w. It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed.

Megafauna like massive elephants were once thought to have gone extinct due to humans arriving, but it turns out we weren't responsible after all.

For a long time, everybody was talking about how megafauna went extinct 11,000 years ago, and humans got to the Americas 13,000 years ago. So the Overkill Hypothesis makes sense from this perspective.

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be filled by humans Skip to main content Scientific American ...

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

Although the strategy behind ancient humans’ megafauna hunting efforts appears to be coalescing, Byram and his team want to conduct a more realistic test involving a replica mammoth to simulate ...

Human hunting, not climate change ... By "large," we mean animals that weighed at least 45 kilograms – known as megafauna. At least 161 species of mammals were driven to extinction during this ...

For early humans, hunting megafauna was part of survival. Archaeologists believe that Neanderthals may have hunted fierce cave lions and some early civilizations were likely keen wood workers that ...

A warming, drying climate plus humans’ hunting and burning of the landscape led to large fires that precipitated the end-Pleistocene die-offs there around 13,000 years ago and forever changed ...

If these animals were alive in Brazil at this time, then they would have lived side-by-side with humans who arrived in South America sometime between 20,000 and 17,000 years ago. This suggests a ...