Ever wonder how the megafauna, like woolly mammoths, saber toothed cats, giant ground sloths, giant armadillos, and others, went extinct at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, ~11,000 years ago? In this video, we go over all the all the most notable megafauna of the Pleistocene, how they evolved, and how they went extinct, or at least the various hypotheses about how they went extinct, from asteroid to human hunting! Enjoy :D

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0:00 What were the megafauna?
1:32 The Pleistocene Ice Age
3:07 The Younger Dryas Cooling
3:45 Megafauna Extinctions
4:23 Notable Megafauna
6:17 Mammoths & Mastodons
11:33 Saber Toothed Cats
13:24 Giant Ground Sloths
13:54 Giant Armadillos
15:37 Giant Short Faced Bears
16:23 Woolly Rhinos
18:32 Dire Wolves
18:50 What caused megafauna extinctions?
22:05 What caused the Younger Dryas Cooling?
22:51 Fun Dino game!

References:
Rethinking megafauna: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
Late survival of megafauna refuted for Cloggs Cave, SE Australia: Implications for the Australian Late Pleistocene megafauna extinction debate: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Relationships between climate change, human environmental impact, and megafaunal extinction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158...
Mammoths and Mastodons - Ancient Extinct Elephants: https://www.thoughtco.com/mammoths-an...
50 Million Years of Elephant Evolution: https://www.thoughtco.com/50-million-....
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