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What Happened to Ancient Megafauna?
Recent studies show it wasn’t the climate that did them in.
These open spaces make way for plains animals like antelope and zebra, while the hollows and crevices formed by broken branches and felled trees create habitats for small mammals, insects, and fungi. “We know that prehistoric humans were very focused on hunting big species,” says Jens-Christian Svenning, director of the Danish National Research Foundation’s Center for Ecological Dynamics in a Novel Biosphere at Aarhus University. A few years ago, researchers published a paper in Nature that likewise found that distributions of megafauna across time and space in prehistoric South America align closely with human demographic data as well as findings of spear points called fishtails in the archaeological record.
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