The call of distant mammoths

By Peter Douglas Ward

Subjects: Mastodon, Mastodons, Extinction (Biology), Extinction (biology), Glacial epoch

Description: Discusses the impact of humans on the extinction of animals, focusing particulary on mammoths in the Ice Age, but also including mass extinctions throughout history, such as marsupial lions and giant kangaroos in Australia, the giant moa in New Zealand, and various prehistoric animals in North America, all of which followed the spread of the first humans in those regions.