Woolly mammoths would nonetheless be ample in Europe with out people, the research discovered
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If there have been no folks in Europe, massive animals similar to mammoths and cave bears could be thriving there in even higher numbers at the moment than 120,000 years in the past.
That’s the conclusion of a modelling research based mostly on fossil and local weather knowledge. It additionally exhibits that the lack of megafauna has had an enormous impact on Europe’s ecosystems.
Lots of the actually massive animals all over the world, from the enormous sloth of South America to Haast’s eagle …