Animals
Mass Extinction of Large Ice Age Mammals Linked to Climate-Induced Vegetation Changes
It is generally accepted that climate change led to the extinction of the mammoth and other large mammals following the last Ice Age, but an international team of researchers behind a new report in the journal Nature claims to have found the smoking gun that pinpoints which of climate change's myriad effects led to the mass extinction of large mammals.
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