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Killing of methane-producing megafauna may have caused cooling 13,000 years ago

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Fri, 04 Jun 2010 14:42:06 +0000
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National Museum of Natural History
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New world megafauna such as mammoths, bison and camelids that were alive at the end of the Pleistocene epoch (some 13,000 years ago) would have produced massive amounts of methane-rich flatulence and belching, thanks to the cellulose-digesting microbes in their guts.
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