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Why did the woolly rhino go extinct?

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Mongabay (India)

Publication Date
2020-12-01

In the arctic tundra of northeastern Siberia lies a graveyard of a now-extinct species of megafauna, the woolly rhinoceros, dating back 50,000 years. Now, a new genomic analysis of the remains of 14 of these fantastical furry yellow creatures shows that climate change was the likely culprit for their disappearance—not hunting by migrating humans, as scientists had assumed.

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https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/why-did-the-woolly-rhino-go-extinct/