Comments on: Cosmic Impact Sparked Devastating Climate Change, Caused Mass Extinctions https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-impact-sparked-devastating-climate-change-caused-mass-extinctions/ Science, Space and Technology News 2023 Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:39:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.1 By: Concetta M. Boyle https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-impact-sparked-devastating-climate-change-caused-mass-extinctions/#comment-309457 Mon, 27 May 2013 07:23:34 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=22447#comment-309457 This research might indicate that it wasn’t the cosmic collision that extinguished the mammoths and other species, Tankersley says, but the drastic change to their environment.

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By: Michael Guinn https://scitechdaily.com/cosmic-impact-sparked-devastating-climate-change-caused-mass-extinctions/#comment-309446 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:18:43 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=22447#comment-309446 “Of the 70 species known to have lived there before the Younger Dryas, 68 were found there afterward. The two that didn’t make it were the giant beaver and the flat-headed peccary, a sharp-toothed pig the size of a black bear.”

What about the wooly mammoths mentioned in the first paragraph?

“Herds of wooly mammoths once shook the earth beneath their feet, sending humans scurrying across the landscape of prehistoric Ohio. But then something much larger shook the Earth itself, and at that point these mega mammals’ days were numbered.”

“Imagine living in a time when you look outside and there are elephants (mammoths) walking around in Cincinnati,” Tankersley says. “But by the time you’re at the end of your years, there are no more elephants (mammoths). It happens within your lifetime.”

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