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Feb 17, 2021 07:54 AM EST
A new study released in Nature Communication suggests that over-hunting by increasing human populations following their entrance into the Americas was not the main factor leading to the extinction of the largest animals in North America.
Rather, the study suggests that based on the new statistical modeling method, the populations of rge animals in North America were reduced due to climate change, leading to a radical decrease of temperatures around 13,000 years ago. This commenced the decline and extinction of these large mammals.
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Max Planck Extreme Event Research Group
Humans may have a hand in the extinction of large animals in more complicated and indirect ways than what the they believe. Prior to 10,000 years ago, North America was home to many large creatures, such as sloths, mammoths, beavers, and glyptodons. On the contrary, most of the animals weighing over 44kg in North America 10,000 years ago, also called megafauna, h