Megafauna Giant Beasts of Pleistocene South America

FARIÑA R.A.; VIZCAÍNO, S.F.; DE IULIIS G.

Indiana University Press

Lugar: Bloomington; Año: 2013 p. 448

978-0-253-00230-3

Megafauna describes the history of way of life of these animals, their comings and goings, and what befell them at the begging of the modern era and the arrival of humans. It places these giants within the context of the other mammals then alive, describing their paleobiology- how they walked, how much they weighted, their diets, behavior, biomechanics, and the interactions among them and with their environment. It also tells the stories of the scientists who contributed to our discovery and knowledge of these transcendent creatures and the environment thy inhabited