New study reveals link between 'climate footprints' and mass mammal
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 14:02
in Paleontology & Archaeology
An international team of scientists have discovered that climate change played a major role in causing mass extinction of mammals in the late quaternary era, 50,000 years ago. Their study, published in Evolution, takes a new approach to this hotly debated topic by using global data modelling to build continental 'climate footprints.'