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 ...

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 ...

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 revival of North America’s largest flying bird has sparked hope for conservationists, who have rescued the species from the brink of extinction. With a wingspan of nine-and-a-half feet and a ...

Research from La Brea Tar Pits and Lake Elsinore has unearthed evidence of a dramatic event 13,000 years ago that transformed Southern California’s vegetation and caused the disappearance of iconic ...