New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

the Museum is an extraordinary reservoir of animal bones that are deeply relevant to the question of how North America's megafauna went extinct. Yet many of these remains are heavily fragmented ...

Yet, North America’s megafauna had survived previous cycles ... with human predators—at unsustainable rates, driving them to extinction. This hypothesis still isn’t completely proven ...

(See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American Ice Age mammals ... we're also talking about collapses for megafauna that didn't actually go extinct." (Researchers have found evidence ...

New research found that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction.

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 ...

(CN) — New research on fossil footprint evidence suggests that humans were present in North America earlier ... why they went extinct and how humans of the time survived. “The overlap of humans and ...

Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the ... The American mastodon was a large land mammal that roamed North America throughout the Ice Age ...

Washington, DC, March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A pivotal new study led by NatureServe reveals that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction.

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 ...