[RightWhale]

I have seen their bones. The place is littered with them. The elephants were big in those days, but the horses were small. There were sabretooth tigers here, too: we have bones and hides uncovered by goldmining. There were muskox then, and still are, curious creatures. 24,000 years isn't much these days, as you no doubt know.

[Rebelbase]

Somewhere back in time someone posted an article on FR about giant sabertooth type cats that occupied the Bearing Land Bridge. The hypothesis was these cats stalled human migration for centuries as the area was people food funnel for the cats.

The presence of large herds of mammals would have been sufficient to draw the cats there at the beginning.

[Rebelbase]

Holy Cow! I just noticed that I sent out a reply to a seven year old post.