Primitive Man Caused Many Large Mammal Extinctions

Primitive Man Caused Many Large Mammal Extinctions

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to prehistoric humans. Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size -- by way of extinction -- at least 90,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. The magnitude and scale of the extinction wave surpassed any other recorded during the last 66 million years, according to the study. Source 8l.