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Charcoal evidence tracks climate changes in Younger Dryas

Jan 28, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (7) | 0

A new study reports that charcoal particles left by wildfires in sediments of 35 North American lake beds don't readily support the theory that comets exploding over the continent 12,900 years ago sparked ...

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Clovis-age overkill didn't take out California's flightless sea duck

Biology /

Mar 17, 2008 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Clovis-age natives, often noted for overhunting during their brief dominance in a primitive North America, deserve clemency in the case of California's flightless sea duck. New evidence says it took thousands of years for ...

Research team says extraterrestrial impact to blame for Ice Age extinctions

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Sep 24, 2007 | 4.7 / 5 (46) | 0

What caused the extinction of mammoths and the decline of Stone Age people about 13,000 years ago remains hotly debated. Overhunting by Paleoindians, climate change and disease lead the list of probable causes. ...

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