Mass Animal Extinctions, Not Climate Change, Killed Plants

Friday, May 14, 2010 - 11:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A gradual dying out of large mammals 15,000 years ago, lead to the disappearance of certain plant populations, a new study says. The findings contradict pervious ideas that climate change or human hunting could have killed off these plants.

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