Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

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 ...

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 ...

Molecular dating has shown that several extinct creatures, such as giant sloths and mammoths, survived in South America much later than previously thought, raising questions about the root causes ...

were also eaten by early humans and whether Peltocephalus maturin – together with the South American megafauna – fell victim to human expansion is still unclear,” said Ferreira in the press ...