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Vanished giants : the lost world of the Ice Age / Anthony J. Stuart.
"Long after the extinction of dinosaurs, when humans were still in the Stone Age, woolly rhinos, mammoths, mastodons, sabertooth cats, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacular large animals roamed the Earth. In Vanished Giants, paleontologist Anthony J. Stuart explores the lives and environments of these Ice Age animals, moving between six continents and several key islands. Stuart examines the animals themselves via what we've learned from fossil remains, and he describes the landscapes, climates, vegetation, ecological interactions, and other aspects of the animals' existence. Illustrated throughout, Vanished Giants also offers a picture of the world as it was tens of thousands of years ago when these giants still existed -- and, drawing on the latest evidence provided by radiocarbon dating, of how that world may have ended. Linking the extinction of Ice Age megafauna to the beginning of the so-called Sixth Extinction, Vanished Giants has important implications for understanding the likely fate of present-day animals in the face of contemporary climate change and vastly increasing human populations."--Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780226824031
- ISBN: 0226824039
- Physical Description: 310 pages : illustrations, ; 23 cm
- Edition: Paperback edition.
- Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2021
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Crises in the history of life -- The Ice Age and the megafauna -- Cold case : the search for the Ice Age killer -- Northern Eurasia : woolly rhinos, cave bears, and giant deer -- North America : mastodon, ground sloths, and sabertooth cats -- South America : ground sloths and glyptodonts -- Sahul : giant marsupials, a thunderbird, and a huge lizard -- Madagascar : giant lemurs, elephant birds, and dwarf hippos -- New Zealand : land of the moa -- Island megafauna -- Megafaunal survival : sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia -- Summary and conclusions : the global pattern of megafaunal extinctions.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Southwestern Community College Holt Library | QE 721.2 .E97 S78 2022 (Text) | 33242000691732 | General Collection | Available | - |