The vertebrate community of Madagascar is one of the most unique and diverse on Earth,
yet faunal diversity today is just a fraction of that present in the Pleistocene and Early …

Over the past 20 years, the earliest prehistory of Cyprus has been completely rewritten as a
result of new excavations, survey work and high-resolution radiocarbon dating. This study …

Proposed explanations for the terminal Pleistocene large mammal extinction event in North
America include climate warming and/or cooling, overhunting by early humans, disease …

Thirteen new chronometric dates for Illinois proboscideans are considered in relation to well-
dated pollen records from northeastern and central Illinois. These dates span an interval …

Following human arrival, Madagascar suffered well-documented megafaunal extinctions
and widespread deforestation. Although humans are widely considered to be the primary …

Neandertals were an anatomically distinct hominoid species inhabiting a vast geographical
area ranging from Portugal to western Siberia and from northern Europe to the Middle East …

Madagascar's living lemurs (order Primates) belong to a radiation recently ravaged by
extirpation and extinction. There are three extinct and five extant families (two with extinct …

During the Late Pleistocene, the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) experienced a
series of local extinctions generally attributed to human predation or environmental change …

Here I report a fossil microvertebrate fauna from a late Holocene cave deposit in
northwestern Cuba. This study provides new chronological data for the understanding of the …

Knowledge of the fossil mammals from the Pampean Region of Argentina has greatly
increased in recent years. To analyze the patterns of change in regional climates and …