Lecture "Extinction of Ice Age Megafauna"

Date
Local[ + info ]
NameCentro de Interpretação Ambiental da Pedra do SalAddress

Av. Marginal, n.º 4090A
2765-583 Estoril

ParishCarcavelos e ParedeGeolocation38.693719,-9.372287 (open map)
Centro de Interpretação Ambiental da Pedra do Sal (Interpretive Centre)
Price

Free

Description

This lecture will characterize the Pleistocene megafauna, made up of large mammals such as mammoths, mention the environmental changes produced by glaciations and interglacial periods and the consequences that the end of the last glaciation had on the large species that dominated the last glacial period. The question that these extinctions are the beginning of a period of mass extinction will also be addressed.

Target audience: Children over 10 and adults
Registration: atividadesnatureza@cascaisambiente.pt 
More information: atividadesnatureza@cascaisambiente.pt or +351 215 811 750
Organization: Cascais Ambiente e Centro Português de Geo-História e Pré-História

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