You’ve probably heard of woolly mammoths and giant ground sloths—but what about gorilla-sized lemurs and 500-pound birds? Beginning about 50,000 years ago, many of these strange animals–megafauna–went extinct.

Ross MacPhee, curator in the Museum’s Department of Mammalogy, uses colorful illustrations to take us on a journey back in time to the world of the “megafauna,” and explains what scientists think may have happened to them.

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This SciCafe took place at the Museum on December 5 2018.

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