A 20 million years reign of large terrestrial mammals, known as megafauna (animals over 45
kg), came to an end during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Particularly apparent in the …

The extinction of megafauna was an exceptional ecological event with consequences still
reverberating through ecosystems today. A total of 34 megafaunal genera went extinct in …

The late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions may have been the first extinctions directly
related to human activity, but in North America the close temporal proximity of human arrival …

The last important–and possibly the most spectacular–turnover in South American mammal
history occurred around the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, when 100% of megamam mal …

Aim To determine the timing of megafaunal extinction in the high plains of Peru and also to
determine if the timing was delayed in grasslands compared with previously published …

Abstract The Late Quaternary Megafauna Extinction occurred throughout the 40 millennia
before the Pleistocene-Holocene transition (11,700 BP). It resulted in the loss of about 50 …

AbstractLate Quaternary Megafaunal Extinctions in South America: Chronology,
environmental changes and human impacts at regional scalesbyNatalia Andrea …

South America lost more genera in the Quaternary megafaunal extinction than any other
continent, but how it fits into the worldwide extinction has been unclear largely due to the …

By the end of the Pleistocene the world lost most of its species of large mammals in what is
known as the Late Quaternary Extinction event. The debate about the possible causes of …

The late Quaternary period saw the rapid extinction of the majority of the world's terrestrial
megafauna. The cause of these dramatic losses, especially the relative importance of …