The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period when over 178 species of large mammals — known as megafauna — went extinct between 52,000 and 9,000 BCE ...

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 ...

At the start of the Quaternary, the continents were just about ... and most of these so-called megafauna went extinct. Only a handful of smaller, though still impressively large, representatives ...

I am a palaeobiologist interested in patterns and processes of species-level evolution, adaptation and extinction. My research focusses mainly on Quaternary to recent large mammals, with special ...

Here they are one month old in November 2024. The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period when over 178 species of large mammals — known as megafauna — went ...