FaCT Presents: Saturday September 10 – 3 PM Ross MacPhee, author of End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals  12,000 years ago, not so very long ago in the history of life–if you’d been living in North America at the time, you might have encountered this magnificent cat — the saber tooth cat–an animal about the size of a modern lion. But they are no more. They have gone extinct along with mammoths, mastodons, 500-pound birds, and ant eaters the size of grizzly bears, and many other megafauna. But why? Paleomammalogist Ross D.E. MacPhee explores this question in his widely acclaimed book End of the Megafauna — The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals. If you haven’t registered yet for his Zoom appearance sponsored by FaCT, we invite you to do so now.REGISTRATION LINK BELOW  FaCT will continue its 2022 meeting/program season on September 10, 2022 @ 3 PMwhen we present paleomammalogist / author Ross MacPhee via Zoom. |
3 TO 4 P.M. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 REGISTER HERE for FREE: Ross MacPhee Event on Zoom Participants in the Zoom session will be eligible to WIN a copy of End of the Megafauna with its beautiful and amazing color illustrations.  More About This Program & Ross MacPhee: Ross MacPhee is senior curator in residence in the mammal department of the American Museum of Natural History. He works on a broad array of problems, including Caribbean biogeography, Quaternary extinctions, and the application of protein sequence data to phylogenetic reconstruction. “I am currently involved in paleomammalogical research on islands throughout the world, particularly Madagascar and the West Indies. I am also performing research on how extinctions occur, particularly those in which humans have been implicated. My comparative morphological studies have focused on the neurocranium, including recent studies on Eocene primates from China and the American west.” – Ross MacPhee, PhD. |