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 b retreating glaciers and competition from a predater that began to cover the globe: humans.
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