Megafauna mystery: What killed off the mastodons, mammoths, and giant sloths? An Ice Age whodunit: Scientists are gathering clues about what caused a die off in giant prehistoric critters. By Eva Botkin-Kowacki, June 17, 2016 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0617/Megafauna-mystery-What-killed-off-the-mastodons-mammoths-and-giant-sloths
Rising temperatures and humans were a deadly combo for ancient South American megafauna by Lizzie Wade, Science Magazine, June 17, 2016 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/rising-temperatures-and-humans-were-deadly-combo-ancient-south-american-megafauna The paper is: Metcalf, J. L., C. Turney, and many others, 2016, Synergistic roles of climate warming and human occupation in Patagonian megafaunal extinctions during the Last Deglaciation. Science Advances 17 Jun 2016: Vol. 2, no. 6, e1501682 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/6/e1501682 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/2/6/e1501682.full.pdf Another paper is: Barnosky, A. D., P.L. Koch, R. S. Feranec, S. L. Wing, and A. B. Shabel. 2004. Assessing the Causes of Late Pleistocene Extinctions on the Continents. Science. V. 306, pp. 70-75. https://goo.gl/kIEEnV More papers at http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/barnosky/publications.html Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
