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I was hoping this was from the pleistocene... for some reason I'm fascinated that animals like the Giant Sloth existed only 15k years ago.

• RidingPegasus 8y ago
  Shame we had to kill them all. Not to judge though, modern day humans seem to have upped the ante.
• craftyguy 8y ago
  One species of Mammoth existed until about 2.4k years ago[0]. 0. https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/2015 https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/arti...
  • richardknop 8y ago
    Is it known what killed off mammoths? Was it human hunters killing them of or some natural cause? Something like climate change that caused them to not have enough food?
    • dotancohen 8y ago
      Consider that mammoth populations survived past the ice age in places that humans did not live, mostly islands north of Siberia. Now consider that those mammoths were quickly extinguished as soon as humans touched foot on those islands.