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Pleistocene
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How a 400,000-year-old elephant skeleton solved a tantalising puzzle of early human behaviour
Gerrit Dusseldorp, Leiden University One spring, after a long winter, an aged elephant lay dying at the bank…
How Fire, Not Spears, Wiped Out America’s Giants
Researchers at the La Brea Tar Pits discovered that a combination of climate change and massive, human-sparked wildfires—not just hunting—led to the extinction of North America’s megafauna.