[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Renfield. ...layers of ancient permafrost that yielded the frozen bones of woolly mammoths, scimitar cats, short-faced bears and other animals... skull of a horse that had lived in the Arctic during the last Ice Age... a huge animal -- a Clydesdale next to an Icelandic pony -- that probably would have had an easier time outrunning scimitar cats, American lions and short-faced bears... paleontologist Dick Harington found the bones of woolly mammoths, scimitar cats, eight-foot-tall beavers and other Ice Age animals... in the late 1960s and early 1970s... a vast steppe land that was free of ice because the climate was too dry to allow for the formation of glaciers that covered most of continent... No one knows exactly why half of these Ice Age animals disappeared from the landscape so quickly. Most scientists attribute it to a rapidly warming climate... Others believe that disease, or an extraterrestrial impact may have been responsible. A few even have suggested the humans who eventually followed these animals into Alaska and the Yukon hunted them to extinction. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[Ken H]

...eight-foot-tall beavers... ...a vast steppe land that was free of ice because the climate was too dry to allow for the formation of glaciers that covered most of continent.

Nonsense. Them 8 ft beavers had it all dammed up!