Last Updated Wed, 10 May 2006 14:13:18 EDT
CBC News Climate shifts, not over-hunting, killed off the woolly mammoth and wild horse, a carbon-dating study suggests.
What caused the animals to become extinct at the end of the last Ice Age more than 10,000 years ago has been one of prehistory's greatest whodunits. Biologists have often pointed the finger at over-hunting by expanding populations of humans. But new radiocarbon dates give a more precise account of what happened at the time of the mass extinctions, and shift the focus to global warming. Comment: Many scientists have trouble making sense of the data on the extinction of the wooly mammoth because they are not willing to entertain the hypothesis that the earth is subjected to cyclic cataclysmes. The verdict of global warming does not explain the mechanism behind the flash freezing of mammoths who have been found with vegetal matter still in their mouths and digestive tracks. Not does it explain the sites where bones from hundreds of these creatures were found.
For more on this topic, see Laura Knight-Jadczyk's Secret History of the World where she discusses the issue at length. |
By Sara Goudarzi
Staff Writer posted: 10 May 2006 01:06 pm ET Neptune's largest moon, Triton, was originally a member of a duo orbiting the Sun but was kidnapped during a close encounter with Neptune, a new model suggests.
Triton is unique among large moons in that it orbits Neptune in a direction opposite to the planet's rotation, which long ago led scientists to speculate that the moon originally orbited the Sun. But until now, no convincing theory for how Triton paired with Neptune existed. |
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