A 'smoking gun' on Ice Age megafauna extinctions
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 15:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
It was climate that killed many of the large mammals after the latest Ice Age. But what more specifically was it with the climate that led to this mass extinction? The answer to this is hidden in a large number of sediment samples from around the Arctic and in the gut content from permafrozen woolly rhinos, mammoth and other extinct ice age mammals.