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In the early 1960s, ecologist Paul Martin of the University of Arizona postulated that the first Americans, after crossing into the Americas over the Bering Land Bridge, hunted the megafauna to ...
A new study combining Indigenous knowledge systems with Western genomics has uncovered how megafauna – namely ancient horses – were impacted during a ...
A plume of hot rocks that burst forth from the Earth's mantle millions of years ago helped forge a land bridge that connected Asia and Africa for the first time. Credit: Alisha Steinberger / The ...
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ruled by strange megafauna. Around 30,000 years ago, the Paleo-Indians, ancestors of Native Americans, crossed the Beringia land bridge into Alaska. Today, we explore the Clovis People ...
who as every schoolchild knows are thought to have crossed from Siberia to America across the Bering Land Bridge, hunted the megafauna to extinction. For many years, "overkill" became the leading ...