We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species ... for each mammal species to help us reconstruct their Late Quaternary ...

The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period when over 178 species of large mammals — known as megafauna — went extinct between 52,000 and 9,000 BCE ...

Climate change and the developments it spurs carry the narrative of the Quaternary ... whether the warming climate is to blame for the extinction at the end of the last ice age.