Big brains helped clever mammals survive the last Ice Age that wiped out megafauna - ZME Science

Mastodons and saber-toothed tigers may have lacked the brain power to adapt to the end of the ice age.

Various megafauna species that went extinct at the end of the last ice age. Credit: LifeGate. The Last Glacial Period, which we colloquially refer to as the last ice and lasted until around 11,500 … [+3872 chars]

full article...