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.

[fnord]

don’t panic

[CatherineofAragon]

And be sure to clip that Beatle wig!

[Nowhere Man]

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.

Good point. Myself, I would not want to go after one unless I had a minimum of something like a .375 H&H or better yet, .458 Mag or .460 Weatherby. Better go for broke, how about using Ma Deuce, M2 machine gun? B-P