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August 19th, 2010, 12:42 PM
Human hunters off the hook? Climate change caused wooly mammoths' extinction, say scientists.
The Great Beyond: Human hunters off the hook? Climate change caused wooly mammoths' extinction, say scientists. (http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/08/climate_not_humans_led_to_the.html)
Climate change, rather than human hunters, drove the wooly mammoth to extinction. That’s the claim from scientists who say that the hairy beasts lost their grazing grounds as forests rapidly replaced grasslands after the last ice age, roughly 20,000 years ago.
The Great Beyond: Human hunters off the hook? Climate change caused wooly mammoths' extinction, say scientists. (http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/08/climate_not_humans_led_to_the.html)
Climate change, rather than human hunters, drove the wooly mammoth to extinction. That’s the claim from scientists who say that the hairy beasts lost their grazing grounds as forests rapidly replaced grasslands after the last ice age, roughly 20,000 years ago.