And because the fossil record shows the widespread decline of American megafauna starting around the same time — with North ...

For a long time, scientists believed the first humans to arrive in the Americas soon killed off these giant ground sloths ...

Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first humans who spread across North America during the last Ice Age put mammoths at the top of their menu, according to scientists who secured the first direct evidence ...

New research examines chemical signatures to determine the diet of a prehistoric boy and his mother, suggesting the Clovis ...

and David J. Meltzer. 2004. “North American overkill continued?” Journal of Archaeological Science 31:133-136. Barnosky, Anthony D. 2008. “Megafauna biomass tradeoff as a driver of ...

Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...

Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge – up to 4 tons – and when ...