#Metasthenurus

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The biggest and slowest don't always bite it first

The biggest and slowest don’t always bite it first

For many years I’ve been interested in modelling the extinction dynamics of megafauna. Apart from co-authoring a few demographically simplified (or largely demographically free) models about how megafauna species could have gone extinct, I have never really tried to capture the full nuances of long-extinct species within a fully structured demographic framework. That is, until now. But how do…

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