A Tumamoc Talk Exclusive with UArizona Geosciences Lecturer Advait Jukar
The demise of the megabeasts: ice age extinctions and what caused them.
RSVP: tumamoc-hill@arizona.edu
When
5:30 to 6:30pm, May 8, 2024
Where
Tumamoc Hill Boathouse
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.