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Climate change likely drove the extinction of North America’s largest animals – EurekAlert

A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America’s largest mammals was not driven by overhunting by rapidly expanding…

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IMAGE: The study’s findings suggest that decreasing hemispheric temperatures and associated ecological changes were the primary drivers of the Late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in North America.
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A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America’s largest mammals was not driven by overhunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas. Instead, the findings, based on a new statistical…

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