Micro Methods for Megafauna: Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions and Their Contributions to Faunal Conservation in the Anthropocene

A year in the life of a giant ground sloth during the Last Glacial Maximum in Belize

(2019) Jean T. Larmon et al.   Science Advances

Exceptionally high δ15N values in collagen single amino acids confirm Neandertals as high-trophic level carnivores

(2019) Klervia Jaouen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave

(2019) Katerina Douka et al.   NATURE

What does the occurrence of Sporormiella (Preussia ) spores mean in Australian fossil sequences?

(2018) John Dodson et al.   JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE

Subsistence practices, past biodiversity, and anthropogenic impacts revealed by New Zealand-wide ancient DNA survey

(2018) Frederik V. Seersholm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New protocol for compound-specific radiocarbon analysis of archaeological bones

(2018) Thibaut Deviese et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Chronological and Isotopic data support a revision for the timing of cave bear extinction in Mediterranean Europe

(2018) Gabriele Terlato et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father

(2018) Viviane Slon et al.   NATURE

Big data little help in megafauna mysteries

(2018) Gilbert J. Price et al.   NATURE

Evolution and extinction of the giant rhinoceros Elasmotherium sibiricum sheds light on late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions

(2018) Pavel Kosintsev et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Dietary responses of Sahul (Pleistocene Australia–New Guinea) megafauna to climate and environmental change

(2017) Larisa R. G. DeSantis et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

Seasonal migration of marsupial megafauna in Pleistocene Sahul (Australia–New Guinea)

(2017) Gilbert J. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A case of early Wisconsinan “over-chill”: New radiocarbon evidence for early extirpation of western camel ( Camelops hesternus ) in eastern Beringia

(2017) Grant D. Zazula et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments

(2017) Viviane Slon et al.   SCIENCE

Central European Woolly Mammoth Population Dynamics: Insights from Late Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes

(2017) James A. Fellows Yates et al.   Scientific Reports

Ancient DNA reveals differences in behaviour and sociality between brown bears and extinct cave bears

(2016) Gloria G. Fortes et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Timing and causes of mid-Holocene mammoth extinction on St. Paul Island, Alaska

(2016) Russell W. Graham et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne

(2016) Frido Welker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dietary interpretations for extinct megafauna using coprolites, intestinal contents and stable isotopes: Complimentary or contradictory?

(2016) Nicolas J. Rawlence et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Disentangling the impacts of climate and human colonization on the flora and fauna of the Australian arid zone over the past 100 ka using stable isotopes in avian eggshell

(2016) Gifford H. Miller et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

(2016) Frédérik Saltré et al.   Nature Communications

Identification of a new hominin bone from Denisova Cave, Siberia using collagen fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis

(2016) Samantha Brown et al.   Scientific Reports

Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth

(2015) Eleftheria Palkopoulou et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Combination of humans, climate, and vegetation change triggered Late Quaternary megafauna extinction in the Última Esperanza region, southern Patagonia, Chile

(2015) Natalia A. Villavicencio et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the Late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottés, France

(2015) Frido Welker et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Ancient proteins resolve the evolutionary history of Darwin’s South American ungulates

(2015) Frido Welker et al.   NATURE

Human use and reuse of megafaunal bones in North America: Bone fracture, taphonomy, and archaeological interpretation

(2015) Landon P. Karr   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Using dung fungi to interpret decline and extinction of megaherbivores: problems and solutions

(2015) Chris N. Johnson et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover

(2015) A. Cooper et al.   SCIENCE

Mitochondrial Genomes of Giant Deers Suggest their Late Survival in Central Europe

(2015) Alexander Immel et al.   Scientific Reports

Evidence for a 15N positive excursion in terrestrial foodwebs at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in south-western France: Implications for early modern human palaeodiet and palaeoenvironment

(2014) Hervé Bocherens et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

(2014) Eske Willerslev et al.   NATURE

Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent

(2014) P. Roberts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Late Pleistocene and Holocene mammal extinctions on continental Africa

(2013) J. Tyler Faith   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Reply to Brook et al: No empirical evidence for human overkill of megafauna in Sahul

(2013) Stephen Wroe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New radiocarbon evidence on the extirpation of the spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta (Erxl.)) in northern Eurasia

(2013) Anthony J. Stuart et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Scrapheap Challenge: A novel bulk-bone metabarcoding method to investigate ancient DNA in faunal assemblages

(2013) Dáithí C. Murray et al.   Scientific Reports

Climatic and megaherbivory controls on late-glacial vegetation dynamics: a new, high-resolution, multi-proxy record from Silver Lake, Ohio

(2012) Jacquelyn L. Gill et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Species-specific responses of Late Quaternary megafauna to climate and humans

(2011) Eline D. Lorenzen et al.   NATURE

Sporormiella as a proxy for non-mammalian herbivores in island ecosystems

(2011) Jamie R. Wood et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Ultrastructure of avian eggshell during resorption following egg fertilization

(2009) Y.-C. Chien et al.   JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska

(2009) James Haile et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Isotopic evidence for the diets of European Neanderthals and early modern humans

(2009) M. P. Richards et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species identification by analysis of bone collagen using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry

(2009) Michael Buckley et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Phylogenetic relationships and an assessment of traditionally used taxonomic characters in the Sporormiaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota), utilising multi‐gene phylogenies

(2009) Asa Kruys et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Pleistocene megafauna from eastern Beringia: Paleoecological and paleoenvironmental interpretations of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope and radiocarbon records

(2008) Kena Fox-Dobbs et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Intraspecific phylogenetic analysis of Siberian woolly mammoths using complete mitochondrial genomes

(2008) M. T. P. Gilbert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Faunal migration in late-glacial central Italy: implications for human resource exploitation

(2008) Maura Pellegrini et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Strontium isotope evidence of Neanderthal mobility at the site of Lakonis, Greece using laser-ablation PIMMS

(2007) Michael Richards et al.   JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE