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The Pleistocene period ended in death. This was no ordinary extinction of a vague geological period which fizzled to an uncertain end. This death was catastrophic and all-inclusive... The large animals that had given the name to the period became extinct. Their death marked the end of the era.
But how did they die? What caused the extinction of forty million animals?
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― The Lost Americans, The Story of the Man They Said Never Was: Old Stone-Age American
― The Lost Americans, The Story of the Man They Said Never Was: Old Stone-Age American
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The woolly mammoths occupied northern Eurasia and northern North America; the Columbian mammoth's range was transcontinental, from Alaska south throughout most of the United States, and went from an elevation of 9,000 feet in the mountains of Utah to sea level in Florida and Mexico. It seems unlikely that such adaptable animals could have been totally wiped out by even the most severe weather conditions.
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― Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
― Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
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