Mammoth and Rhino in Ancient Scotland
The main thrust of the article from The Scotsman is that human settlements dating to 14,000 years ago have been unearthed in Scotland - the oldest yet. But what stood out, for me, was this sentence:
This was a time when nomadic humans hunted giant elk and reindeer using bows and arrows, and when mammoth and rhino also roamed the land.This is not new information, but is a reminder of how very different our world was not so long ago. Not only did we have megafauna that went extinct during the last cataclysm, we had species living a long way from where they live now. Why were there rhinos in Scotland at the tail-end of the ice age?
posted by Rob at
Friday, April 24, 2009
3 Comments:
Okay, I'll bite. Because of a pole shift? Mammoth have been proven to have been able to live in hot (or at least warmer) temperatures, so it isn't unlikely that the Rhino and Mammoth could have co-existed.
Thought the presence of reindeer as well can throw a bit of a spanner in that idea.
Interestingly enough, England and indeed the whole of the British Isles were much warmer 1000 years ago. Grapes (or something like them at any rate) were grown around London and there were good harvests from the warmer climate.
And who knows? Maybe after 2012 grapes will be growing there once again.
I think they went for the golf.
Also there is a hairy rhino that lived in cold climes.
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