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Scientists drop extinction bombshell, claim freak event killed the last woolly mammoths
2024-07-01
'Mammoths are an excellent system for understanding the ongoing biodiversity crisis and what happens from a genetic point of view when a species goes through a population bottleneck because they mirror the fate of a lot of present-day populations,' Dehasque said.
Like Humans.
Posted by:Skidmark

#7  They don't know what they don't know, how can they know what they do know? Check out Boneyard AK. He has mega-fauna specimens that "aren't supposed to be there". But they are, in abundance. This would mean their population estimates and locations for modeling, of predator and prey, are incorrect. Feeding bad data into a modeling algorithm yields a pleasent result; a new problem, requiring a new theory and a new groundbreaking paper.
Posted by: jefe101   2024-07-01 21:24  

#6  Scientists drop extinction bombshell

DARPA or FDA?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2024-07-01 16:53  

#5  I thought it was the Indians?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-07-01 13:02  

#4  The takeaway: It's not clear, and it will likely never truly be known with exact specificity, but Dalén believes something like a bird flu could have doomed the species.

Via Open Source you will discover that there is a nano-diamond infused ash layer across the globe, called the Black Mat Layer, found in N.America, Europe, and S.America that sits right above the Clovis Layer - this layer is when the mega fauna was wiped out - lots of bones found in this layer. And they recently discovered a meteor impact crater up in Greenland (2018ish) that corresponds / matches the dates for this burn event.
Posted by: mossomo   2024-07-01 12:39  

#3  Freak Event: Prehistoric Internal Combustion Engines
Posted by: Frank G   2024-07-01 12:00  

#2  Pre-CO2 climate change.
Posted by: Bobby   2024-07-01 11:49  

#1  Died off 4,000 years ago, as the glaciers were retreating - gotta be climate change!
Posted by: Bobby   2024-07-01 11:49  

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