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Solving an age-old mystery: paleontologists shed new light on the extinction of the woolly rhinoceros

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Woolly rhinos were once widely distributed across northern and central Eurasia before becoming extinct about 10,000 years ago. Credit: Mauricio Anton Advanced computer modeling shows that persistent human hunting contributed to the extinction of the woolly rhino by blocking their migration to new habitats during post-ice age warming. This underlines the continued impact of human … Read more

10,000-year-old mystery solved with technology that ‘had never before been thought possible’

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A 10,000-year-old mystery about what led to the extinction of one of the world’s last megafauna has been solved. The woolly rhino was almost two meters tall and had a meter-long horn. But the creature, which roamed Eurasia for about 3.6 million years, was wiped out by human activity, according to new research from the … Read more