A Tumamoc Talk Exclusive- The demise of the megabeasts: ice age extinctions and what caused them

Tumamoc Talks bring together University of Arizona research to the greater Tucson community. 

50,000 years ago, large animals lived everywhere. Today, they’re mostly found in Africa and parts of Asia. The Tucson area was home to bison, camel, horses, giant ground sloths, and mammoths. But why did they disappear all of a sudden? Did early modern humans hunt large, land-dwelling megafauna to extinction as they migrated to new continents, or is climate change to blame instead? In this talk, Dr. Jukar will discuss cutting edge research about the megafaunal extinction and how paleontologists approach the debate surround the causes.

Our speaker:

Dr. Advait M. Jukar is a vertebrate paleontologist and ecologist. He is the Lecturer of Paleontology at the University of Arizona. He is also a Research Associate at Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, and a Curatorial Affiliate at the Yale Peabody Museum. His research spans 200 million years, and focusses on the ecology and evolution of mammals, the paleoecology and biogeography of dinosaurs, and the dynamics of extinction in the recent past. 

Tumamoc Talks are located at the Boathouse at the base of Tumamoc Hill. 

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