Human hunting and renewed global cooling led
to extinction of giant bears in Europe, say palaeobiologists
Date: April
5, 2018
Source:
Universitaet Tübingen
At 3.5 meters long and with a shoulder height
of 1.7 meters, the cave bear was one of the giants of the Ice Age. Yet few
appear to have survived until the last glacial maximum 24,000 to 19,000 years
ago. Researchers have conducted analyses to find out what likely caused the
extinction of these large herbivores. It is believed that the renewed cooling
of the climate and hunting by humans -- added to the bears purely vegetarian
diet -- increased the pressure on this megafauna species.
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