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I wish they had been a little less good at this, to be honest. All the charismatic megafauna were killed off.

• pcurve 2y ago
  That's true... but african elephant is fairly close in side to Wooly mammoth? (though with less majestic tusks)
  • mkl 2y ago
    Yes, but woolly mammoths were on the smaller side. Steppe and Columbian mammoths were bigger, as were (longer ago) Mammuthus meridionalis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#Description Evolutionarily though, Indian elephants are more closely related to mammoths than either are to African elephants. Elephants are now pretty unique, but there were many more related species in the past. Most of the big animals in general were killed off, many with no big relatives remaining.
• r14c 2y ago
  don't worry, our current society is destroying way more species than those old fossils ever did!