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What Killed Ice Age Beasts?
Description: Scientists have argued for decades about whether changing climate, human hunting, or other factors alone or in combination led to the extinctions of large mammals such as mammoths at the end of the last ice age. Now, a new analysis suggests that different species ultimately succumbed in different ways and that there apparently is no single explanation for the massive die-offs. [Source: ScienceNOW]
URL: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/11/what-killed-ice-age-beasts.html
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Source: ScienceNOW
Publish Date: 11/2/2011
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