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The demise of the big animals
What caused the extinction of some of the world's largest mammals, some 15,000 years ago?
What caused the extinction of some of the world's largest mammals, some 15,000 years ago? Around this time there was a profusion of big animals or megafauna on the Earth. Super-sized kangaroos, bears and cats lived throughout the planet, but within a few hundred years these animals were extinct. Could it have been by disease?
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