Good news: Humans aren’t responsible for woolly rhino extinction

[Mike Wehner]

• Scientists studying the remains of ancient woolly rhinos have discovered that climate change, not human hunting, led to their demise.
• The timeline that suggested humans were responsible for the extinction no longer appears valid.
• Woolly rhinos were wiped out when temperatures spiked over a period of just a few decades.

Humans get blamed for a lot and that's because, most of the time, we're messing things up. When researchers studying the extinction of the ancient woolly rhino found evidence that our human ancestors were fond of hunting them, they assumed that, yet again, humans had pushed a species to extinction.

As it turns out, that might not be the case. The woolly rhino is still gone — there's no changing that, yet — but a new study suggests that humans aren't the reason for its demise. With samples of DNA from over a dozen woolly rhino remains, researchers have been able to pinpoint the true culprit: climate change.

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