[SunkenCiv]

Illustration of South American megafauna

National University of La Plata

[x]

I ate it.

Don’t tell Mom.

[Inyo-Mono]

I would think it would be quite brave to try and bring down a giant sloth with spears!

[null and void]

Once you figure out that smoking the meat means a single big kill can provide tasty protein for months...

[crusty old prospector]

As an aside, my son today told me today that our appendix was used by early man to help consume raw meat. Thus, we no longer need it today.

[packagingguy]

Megafauna disappeared everywhere humans went...New Zealand, Asia, North America, it doesn’t matter.Ancient humans weren’t good at wildlife preservation.

[jimtorr]

.....targeted megafauna because larger animals yielded more food.

Genius! Why did't anybody else think of that?

[Carry_Okie]

Dr. Charles Kay at Utah State wrote this in Wilderness and Political Ecology: Aboriginal Influences and the Original State of Nature almost 25 years ago, attributing the "Pleistocene die-off" exclusively to people. While I agree that people were significant contributors to the megafauna extinctions, I suspect a confluence of causes, including real climate change at the close of the Pleistocene and singularities such as comet strikes.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Back to the ‘hungry humans’ theory?

[PIF]

Here we go with more of the humans-did-it archeological meme, despite huge evidence to the contrary. These people just cannot admit there is such a thing as Catastrophe operating in nature.

[Red Badger]

Do they discuss the GIANT BIRDS that once ran across the Pampas?..................

[bert]

Evolution happened

The habitat conditions permitting the mega fauna changed. The smaller and more fit individuals survived.

We do not know how or why the habitat evolved resulting in the elimination of thee fauna.

[ckilmer]

Yes, even if its likely true that there was a comet strike in the Northern Hemisphere—that does not explain the disappearance of the megafauna in south america.

similarly there was another large scale disappearance of megafauna in australia 50k ago after the arrival of the first people.

[P.O.E.]

“Megafauna” is alive and well at your local Walmart.