Sunday 29 April 2018

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans




Date:  April 19, 2018
Source:  University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Summary:
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, according to a new study. The magnitude and scale of the extinction wave surpassed any other recorded during the last 66 million years, according to the study.



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