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.