What Killed Off The Megafauna? (Related to Ancient DNA News Package) (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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What Killed Off The Megafauna? (Related to Ancient DNA News Package) (1 of 4)

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Abseiling into Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming. Alan Cooper descending the 100 ft pitch into NTC to excavate Ice Age megafaunal bones. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the July 24, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Cooper at University of Adelaide in Adelaide, SA, Australia, and colleagues was titled, "Abrupt warming events drove Late Pleistocene Holarctic megafaunal turnover."

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[Credit: Laura Weyrich]

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