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 ...
Paleontologists from National Taiwan University recently discovered a single python vertebra dating back 400,000 to 800,000 ...
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 ...
On Monday, biotech company Colossal announced what it views as its first successful de-extinction: the dire wolf. These large predators were lost during the Late Pleistocene extinctions that ...
The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A lone vertebra dug from Tainan’s coastal mudflats has unveiled giant pythons that once slithered through the nation’s prehistoric wetlands, reaching nearly 4 meters long before ...
BOULDER – Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have created a computer simulation showing Earth’s climate in unprecedented detail at the time of the greatest mass ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. A massive breakthrough was announced this week by the ...
In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two... Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene.
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