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Science News: Marine megafauna, including whales and sharks, face increasing threats from human activities, impacting ocean ecosystems. A recent study by WHOI and A ...
Researchers tracked 13,000 ocean megafauna species over 30 years to uncover where they travel, feed and breed.
Collagen from a fossilized bone fragment can identify the animal it came from. And, some new info about our galaxy’s eventual extinction.
Virginia Tech joined a global research team that tracked more than 100 species and identified ocean hotspots critical for protecting threatened marine megafauna that fall beyond current ...
A sweeping new study is helping pinpoint where whales, sharks, turtles, and other ocean giants need the most protection and where current efforts fall short.
We May Now Know Why an Ancient, Hippo-Sized Wombat and Other Megafauna Went Extinct Learn how researchers used mass spectrometry of collagen to successfully identify some of Australia’s megafauna.
Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years Ago Carbon dating of teeth fragments found in Brazil reveals that some species persisted for thousands of years longer than thought.
Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The ...
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While a range of taxons, including flora, died out, the fate of the megafauna is grim. ECONOVO researchers have presented their conclusions in a review article in Cambridge Prisms: Extinction.
It's a sobering thought, especially since the megafauna that survive today are declining thanks to human exploitation, as found in a 2019 study.