Das Ende der Eiszeit-Giganten

The end of the last ice age may have sounded the death knell for saber-toothed tigers, mammoths and other large animals, but climate is not the only cause of this mass extinction. Recent findings by European and American researchers have shown that the disappearance of the mega-fauna was the result of a combination of climate change and human activity. The extinction of the mammoths and other ice behemoths coincides in fact with the development of the human species throughout the world 12 000 years ago. Another element against our ancestors is their pronounced taste for the meat, richer in vitamin D, of large animals.