New Data Shed Light on Large-Animal Extinction, New York Times by Nicholas Wade, November 19, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24fauna.html
After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape Science Daily, November 19, 2009, http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091119141029.htm Dung dating illuminates mammoth mystery, Nature.com http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/11/dung_dating_illuminates_mammot.html mystery of the mastodons gets a few big clues, Christian Science Monitor, November 19, 2009 http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1120/p02s13-usgn.html Dung helps reveal why mammoths died out BBC News by Victoria Gill, November 19, 2009 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8368485.stm The paper discussed in the above articles is: Gill, J. l., J. W. Williams, S. T. Jackson, K. B. Lininger, and G. S. Robinson, 2009, Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America. Science. vol. 326, no. 5956, pp. 1100 - 1103. DOI: 10.1126/science.1179504 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/326/5956/1100 Yours, Paul H. ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
