Coastal North Carolina's fossil record reveals giant 'hell pigs' | Coastal Review (fb)

You're invited to join the NC Fossil Club for their Sunday, July 20 meeting at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences in downtown Raleigh. The in-person meeting will be held in the Level A classroom starting at 1:30 pm. To reach the meeting room, enter the museum from the entrance across from the Museum of History, after the first set of doors, turn left and take the elevator to Level A. Visitors are welcome. Speaker: Michael Ziegler is a paleoecologist and PhD researcher with the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA) in Germany interested in how humans and megafauna coexisted on the ancient landscape in the Americas. Topic: The Legacy of South America’s Megafauna: What the Data and Debate on Extinction Reveal In this talk, we will briefly shine a light on the spectacular South American megafauna and how their extinctions have led to debates within the literature over the last half a century. Then, we will focus on how recent qualitative research on rock art as well as quantitative investigations on stable isotope analysis may help us understand the history of megafauna right before their demise. (fb)