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51st Annual Hefner Lecture “Prehistoric Predators: Using the Past to Inform our Future.”

Miami University’s Hefner Museum of Natural History’s 51st lecture was presented by Larisa DeSantis, Ph.D. Dr. DeSantis has extensively researched both fossilized Pleistocene (Ice Age) and modern megafauna–from sabertooth cats to cougars, polar bears to coyotes–to present an all-ages public lecture titled “Prehistoric Predators: Using the Past to Inform our Future.” Dr. DeSantis’ lab studies prehistoric ecology and its impact on extinction and evolution as a way to interpret the present and to predict what the future will bring. Her work on fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles and in Australia provides insight into the pressures predators and other large mammals face during times of rapid climate change.