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Scientists Link Extinction of North America’s Giant Mammals to Double Threatscouts

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...
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Pleistocene extinctions the search for a cause editors, P.S. Martin and H.E. Wright, Jr

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 ...
The Conversation

New study challenges a major theory on why some kangaroos mysteriously went extinct

Flinders University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a topic of ...
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Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene. Research hops in with a possible explanation.

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 ...