Researchers at an old geological site talk ‘dirt’ about how Ice Age climate change led to the extinction of mammoths and mastodons, but to the evolution and survival of bison, deer and other present-day species.
The answers to extinction, survival and evolution are right here in the dirt,” says University of Cincinnati Quaternary science researcher Ken Tankersley, associate professor of anthropology and geology. “And we are continually surprised by what we find.”
While many scientists focus on species’ extinction wherever there has been rapid and profound climate change, Tankersley looks closely at why certain species survived.
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