Humans off the hook? Climate change killed woolly rhinos, says study – RFI

Washington (AFP)
A woolly brown rhinoceros that weighed two tons once roamed northeastern Siberia before mysteriously disappearing around 14,000 years ago.
Was its demise caused by humans, or the warming climate of the time?
A new study by a Swedish and Russian team of scientists who examined DNA fragments from the remains of 14 of these prehistoric mammals lets our species off the hook.
They say the population of the animal — also known by its scientific name Coelodonta antiquitatis — rem…

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