HONG KONG: According to new research, mammoths ceased to exist due to an abrupt global warming event – a scenario that could happen again now.
These new studies reveal that short, rapid warming events known as interstadials were the reason for the mass extinctions of these animals that took place during the last ice age or Pleistocene period (60,000 to 12,000 years ago, according to Nature World News.
A team of paleontologists from the University of Adelaide as well as the University of New South Wales, seem to suggest that the final glacial maximum, or the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension, recorded during the Pleistocene did not have a connection to the sloths and mammoths going extinct.
“Even without the presence of humans we saw mass extinctions. When you add the modern addition of human pressures and fragmenting of the environment to the rapid changes brought by global warming, it raises serious concerns about the future of our environment,” observed University of Adelaide professor Alan Cooper, in a release.
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