Before the Spanish introduced modern horses to the New World, horses roamed wild in North America, then they disappeared, but ...

Molecular clues from collagen in old bones are teaching us about the lives, movements, and demise of Ice Age megafauna like ...

They were mostly commonly found in the area south of the Great Lakes in central North America, in what's now ... and the Yukon. Megafauna are large animals, like elephants, whales, and even ...

Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that ...

The American bison is the largest land mammal in North America and a symbol of strength, resilience, and history. Once nearly extinct, it’s made a powerful comeback across U.S. grasslands and parks. [ ...

especially if we're also talking about collapses for megafauna that didn't actually go extinct." Certain populations of surviving big beasts, including bison in North America and musk oxen in Asia ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists have shed light on how prehistoric humans in North America hunted megafauna, such as mammoths. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE ...

Mammoths are perhaps the most iconic of all megafauna, with the woolly mammoth being the most well-known species. These elephantine giants roamed across North America, Europe, and Asia until their ...

For decades, most paleontologists blamed the climate for the disappearance of North America’s megafauna. Their extinction coincided with the end of the last ice age, a time when the planet ...

And because the fossil record shows the widespread decline of American megafauna starting around the same time - with North America losing 70% of its large mammals, and South America losing more ...

And because the fossil record shows the widespread decline of American megafauna starting around the same time — with North America losing 70% of its large mammals, and South America losing more ...

To Faria, the discovery is a change of mind. Brazilian researchers used to adopt the North American view that megafauna were wiped out by overhunting. “Following that dominant view, we were so ...