Crowley's Ridge Mastodon

 

 

 

Over 10,000 years ago, Arkansas was home to a wide variety of large animals, including mammoths, mastodons, llamas, and giant beavers. These giant creatures died out at the end of the last major ice age, a time when large mammals became extinct all over the world. Possible causes for this major extinction include climate change brought on by retreating glaciers and competition from a predator that began to cover the globe: humans.  

 

 

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