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Islands arranged as human footprint
Island-inhabiting giants, dwarves more vulnerable to extinction
March 9, 2023
Agriculture & Environment
Science & Technology
Kate Lyons
Extinctions of massive mammals leave ‘missing pieces’ in ecosystems
September 26, 2022
Agriculture & Environment
Science & Technology
Kate Lyons
Early hunting, farming homogenized mammal communities of North America
July 27, 2022
Agriculture & Environment
Science & Technology
Illustrations of mammals
Humans disrupting 66 million-year-old feature of ecosystems
April 21, 2022
Agriculture & Environment
Science & Technology
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Division by subtraction: Extinction of large mammal species likely drove survivors apart
September 19, 2019
Agriculture & Environment
Science & Technology
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Nickel and died: Earth’s largest extinction likely took plants first
January 31, 2019
Agriculture & Environment
Science & Technology
A life-sized display of Archie, a Columbian mammoth, is on display at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Morrill Hall. A new study suggests that such massive mammals were much more likely than their smaller counterparts to go extinct in regions occupied by ancient humans.
Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans
April 19, 2018
Agriculture & Environment
Science & Technology

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