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We’re still recovering from losing the woolly mammoth

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We’re still recovering from losing the woolly mammoth
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There’s a gaping 2,000-pound hole in Earth’s food web. Saber-toothed cats with 7-inch-long fangs, sloths the size of elephants, wombats the size of cars, and many of the world’s largest mammals disappeared between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. While 10,000 years may seem long ago to humans, that’s a blink of an eye in evolutionary  time, and the disappearance of these megafauna still impacts us today. of. 



According to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Acad

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