demonstrate that the Overkill and Blitzkieg theories are not plausible explanations for the extinction of South American megafauna.” Instead, it is possible that the extinction event was a much ...

Previous research has noted other megafauna fossils around 6,000 and 5,000 years old in the American continent and elsewhere, says Dimila Mothé, a paleoecologist at the Universidade Federal do ...

Findings regarding these fossils have been published in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences. These fossils belonged ...

And mammalogist Ross MacPhee of the American Museum of Natural History ... to America across the Bering Land Bridge, hunted the megafauna to extinction. For many years, "overkill" became the ...

Humans, however, really did hunt mammoths and mastodons. The disappearance of American megafauna—mammoths, camels, giant short-faced bears, giant armadillos, stag moose, glyptodonts, saber ...

Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...

Cross sections of megafauna enamel. Samples QML1311H-WIGL8543 to QML1312-WIGL8554. Strontium transects can be identified by a series of large depressions running along the enamel/dentine.