MY TURN: Mammoths and Extinct Megafaunas: Climate change or man
Mammoths were not the only megafauna that went extinct at the end of the Great Ice Age (Pleistocene). Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared, including mastodons, woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, Irish elk (giant deer), cave bears, cave lions, dire wolves, saber-tooth tigers, giant short-faced bears, camels (12 feet at shoulders), giant sloths, giant beavers (9 feet long), Teratorn birds (wingspan to 28 feet)...
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