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- A study suggests that woolly rhinos, which lived 14,000 years ago, became extinct because of a change in climate and not overhunting.
www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/53776084Woolly rhinos became extinct because of climate change ... - BBC
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The woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is an extinct species of rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia during the Pleistocene epoch. The woolly rhinoceros was a member of the Pleistocene megafauna .
Nov 1, 2023 · For millions of years, the woolly rhinoceros roamed the planet during the Ice Ages. Today, scientists are still teasing apart their mysterious origins and eventual demise.
- Sofia Quaglia
Aug 14, 2020 · A woolly brown rhinoceros that weighed two tons once roamed northeastern Siberia before mysteriously disappearing around 14,000 years ago. Was its demise caused by humans, or the warming climate of the time?
Nov 30, 2020 · Genetic analysis of the remnants of 14 woolly rhinos shows that a warming climate, not hunting, probably killed them off 14,000 years ago. The numbers of woolly rhinos remained constant until close to their extinction, and far after humans had migrated to their territory in Siberia.
Aug 13, 2020 · Woolly rhinos went extinct at the end of the last ice age in Siberia about 14,000 years ago when the climate suddenly began to warm, according to a new study based on ancient DNA evidence.
Aug 13, 2020 · Rather than getting wiped out by Ice Age hunters, woolly rhinos charged to extinction in Siberia around 14,000 years ago when the climate turned warm and wet, a study of ancient DNA suggests.
Aug 13, 2020 · Fedor Shidlovskiy. But suddenly, around 14,000 years ago the woolly rhino died out. Humans are thought to have first made their way to the rhino’s Siberian stronghold around 30,000 years ago,...
