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What is with the "50k" in that headline? The date of 50k years ago does not seem to appear anywhere in the linked academic paper, does not correspond to climate
by mkl 2y ago
What is with the "50k" in that headline?
The date of 50k years ago does not seem to appear anywhere in the linked academic paper, does not correspond to climate change at the start of the current interglacial, and does not correspond to evidence of the arrival of humans in North America. Even the body of the phys.org article doesn't say the extinction happened then.
- jonahbenton 2y agoI read it as being an arbitrary round number click baity point in time for declaring "peak mega fauna." And then, whoosh, just like that, they were gone.