What Really Wiped Out the Woolly Mammoths?

12 million mammoths. 10 million humans. Yet, something erased all the megafauna—except us. Did hunters really cause this mass extinction, or was it something far more catastrophic? The Clovis culture vanished at the Younger Dryas boundary… coincidence?
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#mammoths #Pleistocene #prehistoricanimals #woollymammoth #extinction #Clovis #YoungestDryas #groundsloths #prehistorichunting #saber-toothedcats #RandallCarlson

[SteveMoylan]

i like people that ask questions without acting like they have all the answers

[stephaniegrable]

I met this wonderful man a couple of years ago. He’s so humble and interesting!

[mnomadvfx]

The answer is very simple.

The Younger Dryas stadial represents a drastic average global temperature shift TWICE in the time span of roughly a thousand years.

The long term effects of such a dramatic shift would be ecological whiplash the likes of which we cannot imagine.

Basically many animals would die as their environment changed too rapidly to adapt to it, and other animals dependent on the first animals would die as a result of losing their major food source.

Smaller animals fared much better, like wolves and humans.

Smaller animals have ALWAYS fared better under sudden environmental changes in every extinction event.

[entombedlamb]

Giant sloths were no joke. Even the graphic that flashed up did not do them justice.

[dillon]

I could listen to Randall giving us knowledge all day long

If every teacher in college professor was like this gentleman, we would all be far smarter than we are today as a race of people

[DrKnight]

I never thought of it that way before! Very interesting question!

[sancocho]

It's not just the numbers, the sizes, the danger of these animals. It's the knowledge of hunters and gathering people. They know not to over hunt. They know to not target females, or young. Every hunter, gatherer population on the planet does this. They take what they need. Use every part of the animal. Waste nothing. The idea that they just went ham is ridiculous! .

[VeritechGirl]

Randall could make explaining tax code interesting!

[SS-Chevelle]

The amount of humans able to get to some type of enclosure for protection was low. If it wasn’t for caves, such as the ones in Turkey, the human race probably would’ve died out. As far as the megafauna that died out, anything that was too north of the equator, especially in North America region was completely wiped out, even the humans in that part of the world. We probably came close to mass extension as far as the human race at that point.

[Christopher-dm]

Couldn't get to the equator fast enough.

[kingcosworth]

The idea humans killed all these animals has always sounded so ridiculous

[majorhemroid]

A lot of what we "know" is guesswork.

[winstonsmith]

So obvious, how can anyone argue differently especially after discovering Göbekli Tepe

[jerhamilon]

That’s wild bc if you look it up now they are doing exactly just like in the Jurassic Park movies and bringing Woolly Mammoths 🦣 back as clones and hope they will stomp down the ice caps or something like that.

[jonny-b]

Could be something as simple as 50% of their diet was a specific plant that died out. Or something.

[robert]

There is one constant that applies to earth that can change earth at any moment. The earth travel in a galaxy full of stuff that the earth may or may not come in contact with.

[ncjay]

Randall Carlson teaming up with Graham Hancock was probably the most disruptive event for earth history scientists in my lifetime. Things will never be the same.

[Enki]

Grok gets me mad of how ignorant it is not to admit to this sort of stuff

[jameszarate]

Blackwater Draw in New Mexico is a great place to visit to see lots of Pleistocene animals in one place.

[stevenbingham]

How cool would it be to have a teacher or professor like this? I could listen to this man talk all day.😊