The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period when over 178 species of large mammals — known as megafauna — went extinct between 52,000 and 9,000 BCE ...

At the start of the Quaternary, the continents were just ... and most of these so-called megafauna went extinct. Only a handful of smaller, though still impressively large, representatives remain ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

We are focusing on extinct species from Europe and northern Asia, along with some from North America, including: We are using large compilations of carefully audited radiocarbon dates for each mammal ...

Did the impact cause the dramatic extinction of some 35 types of large animals, or megafauna, in North America, also dated roughly to this period? Or should we blame these extinctions on the ...

She will look at the stable isotope composition of individual amino acids found in ancient collagen to better understand the lives of both extinct and persistent species. Laura Termes is seeking ...

We address the timing of Quaternary events using a relative dating technique ... on the shells helps lab members evaluate ecosystem changes and the timing of megafauna extinction in Australia. The ...

The main ongoing projects in my group are: (1) the origin and dwarfing of endemic mammal species (especially elephants and deer) on Mediterranean islands in the Quaternary; (2) the timing and causes ...

What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric world? For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago.

Researchers examined the fossil records of the site where the now extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon lived in Mount Etna in Queensland. They believe a change in climate could have contributed ...