Megafauna Extinction

While the Younger Dryas (approx. 12,900 years ago) was a period of abrupt global cooling that coincided with the extinction of many North American megafauna, it is not scientifically established as the sole cause of these extinctions; rather, extinction is widely considered a complex process driven

The Younger Dryas, an abrupt cooling period that began approximately 12,900 years ago, coincided with the extinction of numerous megafauna species, including woolly mammoths and giant sloths.

Numerous ancient cultures globally, including those in Mesopotamia, India, Greece, and among various indigenous groups, possess independent traditions of catastrophic floods or world-ending events that wiped out humanity.