ice age

Scientists have solved the mystery of why so many animals died off during and right after the last ice age. And I have to say, it’s not looking very good for you, kid, I think we’re going to take a trip downtown. I’ve gotta go, too, of course, because the perp turns out to be the whole damn human race. Researchers were curious why numerous species of large mammals, known as megafauna, died out during the last 100,000 years when similar die-offs weren’t found during other periods of climate change. Eventually, they had to turn and look in a mirror. “Our results strongly underline the fact that human expansion throughout the world has meant an enormous loss of large animals,” says Postdoctoral Fellow Søren Faurby, Aarhus University. Researchers had considered that the global climate change in the ice age and at the end of it might have killed the large mammals by destroying their habitats. But the last ice age is just one in a series of ice ages, and there’s