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By Will Dunham

| WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON Flower power may have meant the difference between life and death for some of the extinct giants of the Ice Age, including the mighty woolly mammoth and woolly rhinoceros.

Scientists who studied DNA preserved in Arctic permafrost sediments and in the remains of such ancient animals have concluded that these Ice Age beasts relied heavily on the protein-rich wildflowers that once blanketed the region.

But dramatic Ice Age climate change caused a huge decline in these plants, leaving the Arctic covered instead in grasses and shrubs that lacked the same nutritional value and could not sustain the big herbivorous mammals, the scientists reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday.

The change in vegetation began roughly 25,000 years ago and ended about 10,000 years ago - a time when many of the big animals slipped into extinction, the researchers said.

Scientists for years have been trying to figure out what caused this mass extinction, when two-thirds of all the large-bodied mammals in the Northern Hemisphere died out.

"Now flower shop we have, from my perspective at least, a very credible explanation," Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen, an expert in ancient DNA who led an international team of researchers, said in a telephone interview.

The findings contradicted the notion that humans arriving in these regions during the Ice Age caused the mass extinction by hunting the big animals into oblivion - the so-called overkill or Blitzkrieg hypothesis.

"We think that the major driver (of the mass extinction) is not the humans," Willerslev said, although he did not rule out that human hunters may have delivered the coup de grace to some species already diminished by the dwindling food supplies.

The Arctic region once teemed with herds of big animals, in some ways resembling an African savanna. Large plant eaters included woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos, horses, bison, reindeer and camels, with predators including hyenas, saber-toothed cats, lions and huge short-faced bears.

The scientists carried out a 50,000-year history of the vegetation across the Arctic in Siberia and North America.

They obtained 242 permafrost sediment samples from various Arctic sites and studied the feces and stomach contents from the mummified remains of Ice Age animals recovered in places like Siberia. They determined the age of the samples and analyzed the

DNA.

While many scientists had thought the ecosystem had been grasslands and the big animals were grass eaters, this study showed it instead was dominated by a kind of plant known as forbs - essentially wildflowers.

"The whole Arctic ecosystem looked extremely different from today. You can imagine these enormous steppes with no trees, no shrubs, but dominated by these small flowering plants," Willerslev said.

Christian Brochmann, a botanist at the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo, said the permafrost contained "a vast, frozen DNA archive left as footprints from past ecosystems," that could be deciphered by exploring animal and plant collections already stored in museums.

(Reporting by Will Dunham, editing by G Crosse)

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The sun flower seed is the fruit in the sunflower (Helianthus annuus).The phrase "sunflower seed" is really a misnomer when given to the seed in the pericarp (hull). Botanically speaking, it's much more properly termed as a achene. When Un-shelled, the edible remainder is termed the sunflower kernel.

There are actually a couple of sorts of popular sunflower seeds. Linoleic (most familiar), high oleic, and also Nusun. Any selection have their special levels of monounsaturated, saturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids. The details in this post alludes primarily for the linoleic variety.

Pertaining to commercial functions, sunflower seeds are frequently classified by the design on their husks. Should the husk is solid dark, the seeds are called black oil sunflower seeds. The plants may be referred to as oilseed sunflower crops. These kind of seeds are almost always pressed into sunflower oil. Candy striped sunflower seeds are flowers for get well typically useful for food; therefore, they may be referred to as confectionery sunflower seeds.

Sunflower seeds tend to be more commonly eaten as a nutritious treat than together with meals. They could also be employed as garnishes or ingredients in various dishes. The seeds might be marketed as in-shell seeds or dehulled kernels. My sister would love to learn how to create flower arrangements.The seeds can also be sprouted and eaten in salads. Nevertheless taking in out of date sunflower seeds might cause stomach discomfort for instance bloatedness as well as looseness of the bowels as a consequence of rottening of the seed.

When in-shell seeds are prepared, they can be first dried up. Later on, they can even be roasted or dusted with sodium or flour regarding preservation of flavor. Dehulling is often executed by splitting the hull with one's teeth and spitting it out while retaining the kernel in the mouth area and eating it.



In-shell sunflower seeds are especially well-liked in Mediterranean and Parts of asia, like Egypt, Syria, Israel, Turkey, and Malaysia, where they may be frequently named garinim, ayekirdegi, and kuaci respectively. In Turkey, Syria, and Israel, they are often bought fresh roasted in stores and markets and are perhaps the most common stadium food whilst in Malaysia, it can be bought freshly bundled in several roasted flavors at grocery store and convenient stores nationwide. Also , they are well-liked in nations throughout the world like Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, China, Iran, Canada, as well as the United States Of America.

Dehulled kernels have been mechanically refined to remove the Covering. These kernels might be bought raw or even roasted. These dehulled kernels are sometimes included with bread along with other cooked goods for their flavor. Another highlight is sunflower butter, comparable to peanut butter, but utilizing sunflower seeds as an alternative of peanuts. Aside from human consumption, sunflower seeds may also be sold as food for pets and wild birds in bins and small sacks.