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Extinction of North America’s largest animals likely caused by ancient climate change Louise Boyle Replay Video The Independent launches 'Independent Climate' Ancient climate change was likely behind the extinction of North America’s largest pre-historic animals, according to new research. Earlier studies have suggested that growing numbers of “big-game” hunting humans in the Americas some 14,000 years ago led to large mammals being wiped out. But the new study, from the Max Planck “Extreme Events” research group in Jena, Germany, proposes th...

Date Time Climate Change Likely Drove Extinction of North America’s Largest Animals New research suggests that overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America’s largest mammals was not driven by overhunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas. Instead, the findings, based on a new statistical modelling approach, suggest that populations of large mammals fluctuated in response ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: The study's findings suggest that decreasing hemispheric temperatures and associated ecological changes were the primary drivers of the Late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in North America. view more  Credit: Hans Sell A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America's largest mammals was not driven by overhunting by rapidly expanding human populations following their entrance into the Americas. Instead, the findings, based on a new statistical modelling approach, suggest that populations of large mammals fluctuated in re...

Horsetalk.co.nz North American extinctions, including horses, were likely climate driven, say researchers Share The Max Planck Extreme Events Research Group, from left, W. Christopher Carleton, Mathew Stewart, Huw Groucutt and Angela Kiesewetter. Photo: MPI-CE Overhunting by humans was not responsible for the extinction of horses, mammoths, ground sloths, and other North American megafauna, the findings of fresh research suggest. Scientists say the latest evidence supports the view that climate change was behind the loss of some 37 species of megafauna a little over 10,000 years ago,...

Around 10,000 years ago, the largest mammals in North America completely vanished.