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 ...