Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans

04/25/2018 02:40 PM EDT

Archie, a Columbian mammoth

Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size - by way of extinction - at least 90,000 years earlier than previously thought, says a new study published in the journal Science. The magnitude and scale of the extinction wave surpassed any other recorded during the last 66 million years, according to the study.


Full story at https://news.unl.edu/newsrooms/today/article/unprecedented-wave-of-large-mammal-extinctions-linked-to-ancient-humans/

Source
University of Nebraska-Lincoln


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