Natural History Wanderings

UCLA News Room reports

• New research suggests that the rapid extinction of large mammals in Southern California about 13,000 years ago was likely due in part to major wildfires.
• The finding is based on an analysis of fossils from the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles as well as samples of sediment from Lake Elsinore, California, about 80 miles away.
• The new study counters a long-held theory that the animals died off because they were hunted to exinction.

Read article at  Human-set fires 13,000 years ago led to extinction of megafauna in Southern California | UCLA