“The ages obtained demonstrate that the latest ages of megafauna appearance in Brazil are associated with the middle and late Holocene,” the authors write. If these animals were alive in ...

Who or what snuffed out the mammoths and other megafauna 13,000 years ago? It takes a certain kind of person to take on this question as his or her life's work. You have to be itching to know the ...

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals ...