Climate change probably contributed to the woolly rhino’s rapid demise
Tyler Faith, an archeology and anthropology expert at the University of Utah says this idea could
possibly extend to other species that met their ends as the ice age melted away. But,
there’s still the chance that humans played their part in knocking the animals into
extinction, as a sort of one-two punch. After all, Faith says, massive herbivores
like these rhinos were slow to breed and it wouldn’t take a “catastrophic slaughter”
for humans to make a dent in the population.