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Extinction Week Recap

10,000 Birds

It’s when we lost the mammoths, the sabre-tooth cats, the giant ground sloths, the elephant birds, the marsupial lions, and other iconic giants. The Mysterious Starling – “Killed Hopping About in a Tree”. Some of these giants were lost surprisingly recently – the last mammoths around 1700 BC. Comebackers. 314 U.S.