Top 23 north american megafauna in 2023

Author: en.wikipedia.org

Date Submitted: 12/28/2021 07:37 PM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 42641 reviews)

Summary: Extinct giants, such as the American cheetah and ground sloth, lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10,000 years ago.

Match with the search results: Megafauna extinctions that are most consistent with human activity in North America are of the Columbian mammoth, horses and saber-toothed cat. Humans directly ……. read more

Author: www.livescience.com

Date Submitted: 10/14/2019 10:55 PM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 49787 reviews)

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Match with the search results: 10 extinct giants that once roamed North America · 1. North American horses · 2. Glyptodon · 3. Mastodons · 4. Mammoths · 5. Short-faced bear · 6….. read more

Author: www.science.org

Date Submitted: 05/05/2019 12:53 PM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 22470 reviews)

Summary: Dozens of large mammals such as mammoth and mastodon disappeared in North America at the end of the Pleistocene with climate change and “overkill” by human hunters the most widely-argued causes. However, the population dynamics of humans and megafauna preceding extinctions have received little attention even though such information may be telling as we expect increasing human populations to be correlated with megafaunal declines if hunting caused extinctions. No such trends are expected if climate change was the primary cause. We present tests of these hypotheses here by using summed calibrated radiocarbon date distributions to reconstruct population levels of megafauna and humans. The results suggest that the causes for extinctions varied across taxa and by region. In three cases, extinctions appear linked to hunting, while in five others they are consistent with the ecological effects of climate change and in a final case, both hunting and climate change appear responsible. Much of the North American megafauna went extinct in the late Pleistocene, but the causes are debated. Here the authors analyze human and megafaunal population dynamics in Pleistocene North America and find variation among taxa and region in whether hunting, climate or both best predict extinction.

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Author: www.pnas.org

Date Submitted: 05/26/2022 08:01 AM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 46873 reviews)

Summary: The disappearance of many North American megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene is a contentious topic. While the proposed causes for megafaunal extinction are varied, most researchers fall into three broad camps emphasizing human overhunting, climate change, or some combination of the two. Understanding the cause of megafaunal extinctions requires the analysis of through-time relationships between climate change and megafauna and human population dynamics. To do so, many researchers have used summed probability density functions (SPDFs) as a proxy for through-time fluctuations in human and megafauna population sizes. SPDFs, however, conflate process variation with the chronological uncertainty inherent in radiocarbon dates. Recently, a new Bayesian regression technique was developed that overcomes this problem—Radiocarbon-dated Event-Count (REC) Modelling. Here we employ REC models to test whether declines in North American megafauna species could be best explained by climate changes, increases in human population densities, or both, using the largest available database of megafauna and human radiocarbon dates. Our results suggest that there is currently no evidence for a persistent through-time relationship between human and megafauna population levels in North America. There is, however, evidence that decreases in global temperature correlated with megafauna population declines. There are a number of competing explanations for the late Pleistocene extinction of many North American megafauna species. Here, the authors apply a Bayesian regression approach that finds greater concordance between megafaunal declines and climate change than with human population growth.

Match with the search results: Until about 11,000 years ago, mammoths, giant beavers, and other massive mammals roamed North America. Many researchers have blamed their ……. read more

Author: www.nature.com

Date Submitted: 10/06/2021 01:57 AM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 75026 reviews)

Summary: In this essay, learn about the mystery of who or what killed off all the mammoths, sabertooth cats, and other megafauna that lived in North America at the end of the Ice Age.

Match with the search results: The majority are designated as megafauna, with a body mass over ∼45 kg, including several proboscideans (mammoth, mastodon, gomphothere) ……. read more

Author: www.nature.com

Date Submitted: 01/17/2019 05:55 PM

Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 98992 reviews)

Summary: Around 70% of North America’s large animals have gone extinct but one can learn about them in natural history museums.

Match with the search results: Toward the end of the Pleistocene, North America lost 37 mammalian genera including over 70% of its megafauna, commonly defined as terrestrial ……. read more

Author: www.pbs.org

Date Submitted: 06/07/2020 05:33 PM

Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 46392 reviews)

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Match with the search results: The disappearance of many North American megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene is a contentious topic. While the proposed causes for ……. read more

Author: www.thetravel.com

Date Submitted: 01/31/2020 09:46 PM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 84349 reviews)

Summary: Megafauna are large animals such as elephant, mammoth, rhinocerous and Australia’s own diprotodon.

Match with the search results: In the early 1960s ecologist Paul Martin of the University of Arizona advanced the idea that the first Americans, who as every schoolchild knows are thought to ……. read more

Author: www.nps.gov

Date Submitted: 08/29/2019 10:40 PM

Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 25395 reviews)

Summary: Some of these massive beasts are familiar in form but enormous in size, while others are strange hybrids of modern-day animals.

Match with the search results: The megafauna of North America included giant sloths, short-faced bears, American lions, tapirs, giant tortoises, American cheetahs, saber- ……. read more

Author: australian.museum

Date Submitted: 10/25/2019 08:53 PM

Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 73318 reviews)

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Match with the search results: Beringia’s ice-age (Pleistocene) iconic mega-fauna (mammals >100 lbs or 45 kg) included the mastodon (Mammut americanum), woolly mammoth ( ……. read more

Author: www.treehugger.com

Date Submitted: 06/21/2020 11:17 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 70505 reviews)

Summary: Smithsonian scientist’s research illustrates how North American ecosystems are still reeling from the megafaunal extinction that closed the ice ages

Match with the search results: Megafauna extinctions that are most consistent with human activity in North America are of the Columbian mammoth, horses and saber-toothed cat. Humans directly ……. read more

Author: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Date Submitted: 12/24/2022 11:02 PM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 73550 reviews)

Summary: A new study suggests that the extinction of North America’s largest mammals was not driven by over-hunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas. Instead, the findings, based on a new statistical modelling approach, suggest that populations of large mammals fluctuated in response to climate change, with drastic decreases of temperatures around 13,000 years ago initiating the decline and extinction of these massive creatures.

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Author: www.smithsonianmag.com

Date Submitted: 04/22/2021 10:14 AM

Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 85746 reviews)

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Author: www.sciencedaily.com

Date Submitted: 09/29/2020 10:53 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 89979 reviews)

Summary: Before around 13,000 years ago large mammals walked North America – the Mammoth, most famously, but also giant beavers, giant tree sloths, glyptodonts, and the American cheetah among them. By around 11,000 years ago they were all gone (38 genera, mostly mammals). Extinction is a natural part of the cycle of ecosystems, and no species

Match with the search results: Until about 11,000 years ago, mammoths, giant beavers, and other massive mammals roamed North America. Many researchers have blamed their ……. read more

Author: www.sciencedirect.com

Date Submitted: 03/19/2019 03:50 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 71400 reviews)

Summary: Extinct woolly mammoths and ancient American horses have been discovered to have lived in North America longer than previously known.

Match with the search results: The majority are designated as megafauna, with a body mass over ∼45 kg, including several proboscideans (mammoth, mastodon, gomphothere) ……. read more

Author: www.washington.edu

Date Submitted: 10/03/2020 06:05 PM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 32902 reviews)

Summary: Some folklorists have hypothesized that the mythical beasts and monsters of legend were actually inspired by shadowy collective memories of megafauna.

Match with the search results: Toward the end of the Pleistocene, North America lost 37 mammalian genera including over 70% of its megafauna, commonly defined as terrestrial ……. read more

Author: boardgamegeek.com

Date Submitted: 05/21/2019 06:18 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 35464 reviews)

Summary: ‘North American Megafauna Extinction: Climate or Overhunting?’ published in ‘Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology’

Match with the search results: The disappearance of many North American megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene is a contentious topic. While the proposed causes for ……. read more

Author: theness.com

Date Submitted: 10/07/2020 06:10 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 28330 reviews)

Summary: Are elephants important? How about rhinoceros? Or lions? What happens if Earth loses its last remaining large animals? New research by Professor of Biology Felisa Smith at the University of New Mexico shows the profound impacts of losing large-bodied…

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Author: www.amnh.org

Date Submitted: 02/07/2022 04:41 PM

Average star voting: 3 ⭐ ( 67342 reviews)

Summary: At the end of the Pleistocene, North America saw the extinction of about
70% of its megafauna guild – a catastrophic event, the cause of which is
fiercely debated today. The magnitude of this loss may however be a
conservative figure, a suspicion that arises when perusing the list of
‘surviving’ mammalian megafauna, because many also are present in Eurasia.

Match with the search results: The megafauna of North America included giant sloths, short-faced bears, American lions, tapirs, giant tortoises, American cheetahs, saber- ……. read more

Author: daily.jstor.org

Date Submitted: 07/13/2020 01:48 AM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 60971 reviews)

Summary: We May However Have Delivered Some Megafauna Species the Coup De Grâce, Especially After a Magnetic Pole Reversal Caused Global Mayhem 42,000 Years Ago

Match with the search results: Beringia’s ice-age (Pleistocene) iconic mega-fauna (mammals >100 lbs or 45 kg) included the mastodon (Mammut americanum), woolly mammoth ( ……. read more

Author: link.springer.com

Date Submitted: 04/21/2020 05:55 PM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 66008 reviews)

Summary: Buy End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals on Amazon.com ✓ FREE SHIPPING on qualified orders

Match with the search results: Megafauna extinctions that are most consistent with human activity in North America are of the Columbian mammoth, horses and saber-toothed cat. Humans directly ……. read more

Author: news.unm.edu

Date Submitted: 10/09/2019 12:19 PM

Average star voting: 5 ⭐ ( 28128 reviews)

Summary: From the Glyptodon to the American cheetah, here are 10 extinct North American mammals you may not have heard of.

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Author: www.theextinctions.com

Date Submitted: 01/07/2021 08:25 AM

Average star voting: 4 ⭐ ( 95383 reviews)

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