Azraq Basin fossils reveal mammals shrank during PleistoceneHolocene climate shift

Jan 23, 2025

Earth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial. Such a climatic evolution had considerable effects on the ecosystem and the organisms inhabiting it, with many large mammals going extinct and others experiencing reductions in body size.