WHAT KILLED THEMEGAFAUNA?

摘要

Not long ago, giants ruled the land. The woolly mammoth was just one of dozens of gargantuan beasts, including cave bears, giant ground sloths, Irish elk, mastodons and woolly rhinoceros. Between 40,000 years ago and the end of the ice age around 10,000 years ago, they vanished. Most continents lost around 80 per cent of their large mammals forever.