By: Taylor Sheffield
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (UATV) – Anthropologist Amelia Villaseñor was a coauthor on a paper covering extinction’s aftereffects, which happened more than 10,000 years ago.
According to Villaseñor’s research, fossil mammal remains can help us understand how people and other wildlife interact and the effects that it has on extinction. One of the authors highly emphasizes how this made the web food change.
These researches distinguished the roles of the extinct and living mammals, by generating a database of animal diets and how it has evolved over time. This also allowed them to get the body size of these animals, making it more accessible how animals interact with one another, and the environment.
All studies have proven that humans impacted these findings, which created the loss in our ecosystem.
To determine how people have impacted animals and their communities, further research will be conducted.