Climate change played major role in mass extinction of mammals 50,000 years ago, study finds

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 06:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

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 takes a new approach to this hotly debated topic by using global data modeling to build continental ‘climate footprints.’

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