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At the end of the Pleistocene mammoths of Northern Eurasia used to experience chronic mineral ... extinction of the most prominent representatives of late Pleistocene megafauna - the mammoths. There are two main versions: 1) changes ... the mammoth was the largest of all lithophages in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Eurasia. This assertion is also confirmed by the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2015 - 7:56am - 0 attachments

... models for the sizes of predators and prey in the late Pleistocene age (about 1 million to 11,000 years ago), the team concludes that ... said Duke University biologist V. Louise Roth. "In fact, Pleistocene ecosystems were a lot more complex and predators could have had a ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2015 - 7:22am - 0 attachments

... biologists have wondered how ecosystems during the Pleistocene epoch survived despite the presence of many species of huge, hungry ... -- went a long way toward shaping ecosystems during the Pleistocene epoch. The research could have implications for animal ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 27 2015 - 6:00am - 0 attachments

... The study, titled "Postcranial morphology of the middle Pleistocene humans from Sima de los Huesos, Spain," was published in ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2015 - 10:00am - 0 attachments

... rules, reinforced by both genders, that go back to the Pleistocene? As we talk, I confide in O’Connor about the time, perhaps a ...

Article - Mosaic Science - Aug 14 2015 - 8:56am - 0 attachments

... that date to around 430,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene. The only access to the site is through a 13-meter deep vertical ... et al. (2015) Lethal Interpersonal Violence in the Middle Pleistocene. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126589. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0126589 ...

Article - News Staff - May 28 2015 - 10:20am - 0 attachments

... the North Atlantic, is a pervasive feature of the Late Pleistocene - the most recent period of repeated glacial cycles.  The ... the nature of abrupt climate change throughout much of the Pleistocene period, yielding clues as to the influences of abrupt change on ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2015 - 1:35pm - 0 attachments

... regional variation in the size of early humans during the Pleistocene. Some groups, such as those who lived in South African caves, ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2015 - 8:32am - 0 attachments

... in the Southern Peruvian Andes, are the highest-altitude Pleistocene archaeological sites found to-date. The primary site, Cuncaicha is ...

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... comes from the abundant fossil sites of the Australian Pleistocene era (the past couple of million years). These 'roos were made ...

Article - The Conversation - Oct 17 2014 - 12:01pm - 0 attachments