February 20, 2021
A magnetic reversal 42,000 years ago helped bring about earthly extinctions, scientists said, accompanied by changes in the sky including electrical storms and widespread auroras. “It would have been scary,” they commented.
A new international study suggests that a magnetic field reversal – combined with changing solar winds – contributed to an environmental crisis and mass extinctions 42,000 years ago. It happened around the time of the demise of the Neanderthals, an extinct human species that once roamed what’s now Europe, these scientists said, and it would have come with electrical storms, widespread auroras and an influx of cosmic radiation. One of the researchers in the video above commented:
extinction of neanderthals: Study Reveals How did Neanderthals go extinct due to magnetic field collapse and pole reversal: स्टडी में पाया गया कि धरती का चुंबकीय क्षेत्र खत्म होने से गायब हुए आदिमानव
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The importance of preserving kauri has perhaps never been clearer.
Scientists looking at ancient kauri trees in Northland say they ve come across evidence within them that could rewrite human history. It s the most surprising and important discovery I ve ever been involved in, said Professor Alan Cooper of the South Australian Museum, who co-led the new research, published Friday in journal
So what exactly did they find? Evidence that about 42,000 years ago the Earth s magnetic pole went haywire, perhaps wiping out the Neanderthals, but sending Homo sapiens into the safety of caves and inspiring art that we re still finding today.
While the approximate date of the pole shift was already known, examination of the kauri has allowed scientists to precisely date the timing and environmental impacts of the last magnetic pole switch , according to Chris Turney, professor at the University of New South Wales.