Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Conservation Lessons from Ice Age Extinctions
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Podcast Episode Summary
Sharon Levy, author of Once and Future Giants: What Ice-Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth’s Largest Animals, discusses what we can learn from extinctions in the remote past. Today, great beasts like elephants, lions and grizzly bears are threatened worldwide. New research on the demise of Ice Age giants like the mastodon and saber toothed cat now offers vital insights for modern conservation. Scientists have long debated whether prehistoric people drove large Ice Age animals to extinction. Delving into the private lives of these long-gone giants, researchers are finding strong parallels between their fate and the plight of modern wildlife.
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