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The Giant Kangaroo's Extinction Is More Depressing Than We Thought

During the late Pleistocene epoch, which took place between 126,000 and 11,700 years ago, hordes of megafauna species -- large organisms that weigh roughly 110 pounds or more -- died out in what is ...
insider.si.edu

Pleistocene extinctions the search for a cause editors, P.S. Martin and H.E. Wright, Jr

A bestiary for Pleistocene biologists / Paul S. Martin and John E. Guilday -- Introduction / Edward S. Deevey Jr. -- Prehistoric overkill / Paul S. Martin -- Differential extinction during ...
Iowa Public Radio

Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene. Research hops in with a possible explanation.

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...
The Conversation

A changing climate, growing human populations and widespread fires contributed to the last major extinction event − can we prevent another?

Associate Curator, La Brea Tar Pits; Adjunct Faculty, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles Emily Lindsey receives funding from the National ...