Josh Clark

And so when the Younger Dryas was like, Ice Age is back.

Those animals hadn't died out yet, so they're like, awesome.

We've got another 1,300 years.

But after the Younger Dryas ended and the Ice Age finally came to an end about 11,600 years ago, the things like the woolly rhinoceros and mammoths and reindeer had really nowhere to go and largely died off or else migrated northward.

And they were replaced by wild boar.

Birds came along, which is always a good thing.

Otters showed up.

Yeah, if you've ever seen an otter holding hands with another otter, you're glad that those otters showed up.

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It was just a huge change in not only the vegetation, but also the animal life.

And the animal life also included humans, too.

Yeah.

I saw that it was one syllable, so I'm not sure either, but it's not Krajin like I was saying.

Yeah.

It does something weird.

Yeah, this is some of the evidence that we have that Neanderthals were pretty smart and actually well adapted or suited to cold climates.

So they were still around during the Younger Dryas.

Humans had kind of come along before the Younger Dryas.

The Younger Dryas came along, they beat them back.

And then finally, after the Younger Dryas, Homo sapiens really start to show up.