Human hunting played a decisive role in the extinction of large mammals
For decades, the question has loomed large: what caused the extinction of numerous species of large mammals, birds, and reptiles over the past 50,000 years? Defined as animals weighing at least 45 kilograms or megafauna, a minimum of 151 mammal species vanished during this period, based on the discovered remains. The megaherbivores – land-dwelling herbivores …