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A digital illustration of woolly mammoths engaged in a fight accompanied by text describing the now-extinct animal. A smaller illustration within the poster design compares a modern African elephant to the woolly mammoth.

What happened to prehistoric giant animals?

Dani Leviss • February 11, 2019

Saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths, woolly rhinos and other ice age megafauna are all extinct now — but who or what is to blame remains a mystery