'Hypercarnivores' kept massive ancient herbivores in check
Monday, October 26, 2015 - 14:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When the largest modern-day plant-eaters—elephants—are confined to too small an area, they devastate the vegetation. So 15,000 years ago, when the herbivores like the Columbian mammoth, mastodons and giant ground sloths were even larger, more numerous and more widely distributed, how did the landscape survive?