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  Brownbag Lectures: Final Days: Understanding Mechanisms of Extinction in Mammoths and Mastodonts   

Brownbag Lectures: Final Days: Understanding Mechanisms of Extinction in Mammoths and Mastodonts

  • Location: ISM Research & Collections Center, Springfield
  • Date: Wednesday, November 07, 2012, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Presented by Dr. Chris Widga, Assistant Curator of Geology, Illinois State Museum


Many different scenarios have been invoked to explain the extinction of North American megafauna at the end of the last Ice Age. This multi-year project hopes to better define the distribution of different proboscidean taxa on the landscape, examine the evolution of their habitat, and narrow the chronological window of their extinction. Ultimately, all of these issues must be addressed before we can begin to ask the question, “who or what killed the megafauna”?

One of our Brownbag Lectures

Weekly lectures held at the Museum's Research and Collections Center. Lectures are usually held during lunchtime on Wednesday. The RCC is located at 1011 E. Ash Street in Springfield. Access to the building is from 10 ½ Street (between Ash and Laurel Streets), where there is ample visitor parking in the west parking lot. For more information, please call 217-785-0037. Brown Bag Lectures are free and open to the public.

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