Interestingly, megafauna colonized the area again about 5,000 years later, although their population numbers never reached their previous levels of abundance. Then abruptly, about 11,000 years ago ...

What prehistoric poop reveals about extinct giant animals Spores from a fungi found in megafauna poop can tell us when enormous creatures went extinct. Laura Baisas Apr 26, 2023 12:00 PM EDT ...

Humans likely butchered 6-foot-long armadillo-like animals over 20,000 years ago, according to a report in PLOS ONE. These findings not only represent an interesting dietary choice (and make one ...

Butchered Giant Armadillo Shows Humans Were In South America 21,000 Years Ago The megafauna feast is among the earliest evidence yet of humans in southern South America.

Giant ancient animals known as megafauna, originally thought to have gone extinct due to the arrival of human beings, have now been found to have perished for other reasons. In a paper published ...

F.H.C. Faria et al. 3,500 years BP: The last survival of the mammal megafauna in the Americas. Journal of South American Earth Science s. Vol. 135, February 15, 2025, 105367. doi: 10.1016/j.jsames ...

The Glyptodon, resembling a colossal armadillo, roamed the plains of North America around 20 million years ago. Encased in a bony shell, this creature was roughly the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.

The BC Megafauna Project looks at ice age animals found in British Columbia. Our aim is to find and document as many of them as possible, from both public and private collections. We want to know when ...

These megafauna like wooly mammoths and giant sloths were all hunted to extinction by humans 10,000 years ago. With the loss of those animals, we also lost their benefits to the ecosystems on our ...

Big animals of the ocean go about their days mostly hidden from view. Scientists know this marine megafauna – such as whales, sharks, seal, turtles and birds – travel vast distances to feed ...