Mammoths may have died after impact from space

World Science ^ | 20 May 2013 | University of Cincinnati

[rjbemsha]

New re­search sug­gests wooly mam­moths, the gi­gantic cousins of mod­ern ele­phants, al­so died out as a re­sult of cli­mate change fol­low­ing a cos­mic im­pact—and that blast may have shocked hu­man popula­t­ions as well.

Ei­ther a com­et scrap­ing the at­mos­phere or a me­te­or­ite slam­ming in­to the Earth caused glob­al-scale com­bus­tion, scorch­ing the air, melt­ing bed­rock and al­tered the course of Earth’s his­to­ry, ac­cord­ing to re­searcher Ken­neth Tanker­s­ley of the Uni­vers­ity of Cin­cin­nati.

Tanker­s­ley said while the cos­mic strike had an im­me­di­ate and deadly ef­fect, the long-term side ef­fects were far more dev­as­tat­ing – si­m­i­lar to Kra­ka­to­a’s af­termath but many times worse – mak­ing it un­ique in mod­ern hu­man his­to­ry. Tox­ic gas poi­soned the air and cloud­ed the sky, he ar­gues, caus­ing tem­per­a­tures to plum­met.

[rjbemsha]

[But] "hu­mans of the Young­er Dry­as were hunter-gath­erers. When ca­tas­tro­phe struck, they found news ways and new places to hunt game and gath­er wild plants, he said."

[Bratch]

So primitive humans were able to survive and adapt after a global catastrophe, but we must sacrifice every modern convenience we have at the alter of climate change?

Liberals are weird.

[Steve Van Doorn]

The last ones died in the 1700 BC. so, yeah.

[MaxMax]

Mammoths may have died after impact from space

Mammoths without parachutes.

[Cronos]

Mammoths may have died after impact from space

They forgot to fire the reverse landing rockets?

[Dusty Road]

Mammoths don’t have air brakes!

[pas]

They died off because of all the human made camp fires.

[SunkenCiv]

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The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization by Richard Firestone, Allen West, and Simon Warwick-Smith

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks rjbemsha.

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[Sirius Lee]

Mammoths without parachutes.

I thought it was whales and potted plants that fell from space.

[Daffynition]

[norwaypinesavage]

It seems like Woolly Mammoths, with their warm fur coats, would have had a better chance of survival in a sudden ice age than naked Elephants. I wonder why?

[jdsteel]

“They died off because of all the human made camp fires.”

What did they cook over those camp fires? WOOLY MAMMOTHS!!!

[central_va]

All I can say is out neolithic ancestors had balls to go after a Mammoth with nothing but a sharp stick. To me this is incomprehensible or mammoth meat was really tasty. I am sure poking a mammoth really pissed off the mammoth.

[CatherineofAragon]

“verterbrate...!”

[Daffynition]

[COBOL2Java]

New re­search sug­gests wooly mam­moths, the gi­gantic cousins of mod­ern ele­phants, al­so died out as a re­sult of cli­mate change fol­low­ing a cos­mic im­pact...

And all this time I thought it was the big Cadillac SUVs they drove!

[CatherineofAragon]

“We’re gonna need a bigger clipper”

[Daffynition]