Study: Climate Change Drove Prehistoric Proboscideans to Extinction
A new study, published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, challenges claims that early humans slaughtered mammoths, mastodonts and prehistoric elephants to extinction over millennia. “The worldwide extirpation of megafaunas was a radical upheaval in the recent evolutionary history of terrestrial ecosystems, with Late Pleistocene human activities often considered culpable,” said lead author Dr. […]Read More
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