11.21.09
After the mammoths
After Mastodons and Mammoths, a Transformed Landscape
ScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2009) — Roughly 15,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, North America’s vast assemblage of large animals — including such iconic creatures as mammoths, mastodons, camels, horses, ground sloths and giant beavers — began their precipitous slide to extinction.