TORONTO, Ontario (CTV Network) -- Climate change wiped out nearly two thirds of the mammal species in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula in a mass extinction event 30 million years ago that researchers have only just learned about now.
According to a new study, published in the journal Communications Biology, the Earth’s climate dramatically shifted during the transition between the geological periods called the Eocene and Oligocene.
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