Usually, I write about when megafauna extinction happened and how. But, the megafauna that went extinct when modern humans expanded were themselves pretty cool and there is a blog about them called TwilightBeasts. It is worth your time to peruse.
The image below in anachronistic but illustrates scale well:
Some of those megafauna sure were mega.
ReplyDeleteThe extinction of such animals may be a result of revolution, which can be identified by studying some RNA samples.
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