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Friday, 24 April 2009

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?

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