Birds are older than you (or Alan Feduccia) think.
Tag: Paleontology
Meteor Strike Update
Dr. Valerius Geist has some ideas. “There may be some thing to this meteor strike. However, the cosmic event did not get rid of megaherbivores, such as mammoth and mastodons. However, the short, but severe depletion pf large prey may have eliminated Arctodus simus, and Miracinonyx. They seem to be gone about 13,000 BP. With …
Ice Age Impact?
Scroll down from here to that title to hear a Canadian broadcast on the possible 13,000- year old meteor strike that may have been implicated in the North American Pleistocene extinctions. We will be hearing more about this. (HT Walter Hingley).
Ancient Enemies
Proof that at least one species of prehistoric cat, Megantereon, hunted humans– it’s in the isotopes. “”Paranthropus robustus and the early Homo species,Homo ergaster, had a diet that reflected a mix of carbon isotopes, suggesting that they were omnivorous, which is similar to what modern humans are today,” said Lee-Thorp. “Knowing the hominid carbon isotope …