00:05Echoes of the Lost, Extinct Mammals That Vanished From Earth
00:08Woolly mammoths crossed ice-age tundra with shaggy coats and curved tusks.
00:13Across Europe, North America and Asia, extinct mammals left only fossils, museum bones and old
00:18drawings behind. The woolly mammoth roamed frozen plains before climate shifts and hunters helped
00:23erase it around 4,000 years ago. The quagga grazed South African grasslands with zebra stripes on its
00:29front half and a brown horse-like body behind. Stellar's sea cow drifted through kelp beds near
00:34the Bering Sea, reaching 30 feet long before hunters wiped it out. The giant ground sloth stripped leaves
00:40from trees with huge claws while its 4,000-pound body moved through ancient forests. The Tasmanian
00:46tiger walked through Tasmania with a dog-like body, striped back, pouch, and powerful jaws before
00:51overhunting ended it. The Pyrenean ibex climbed rocky mountains in Spain and southern France until the
00:57last female, Celia, died in 2000. The Baiji dolphin swam through China's Yangtze River, where boat
01:03traffic and habitat damage pushed it toward extinction by 2006. The Caribbean monk seal rested on warm
01:09beaches after Columbus's 1494 voyage, but hunters chased its blubber until sightings stopped in 1952.
01:15The saber-toothed cat stalked Ice Age grasslands with 7-inch canine teeth and hunted large prey before
01:20disappearing around 10,000 years ago. The Falkland Islands wolf hunted seabirds and small animals,
01:25but settlers killed the Wara until the islands lost it in 1876. These lost mammals repeat one pattern.
01:32Ice, islands, rivers, beaches, and grasslands changed faster than their bodies could survive.
01:38A museum hall now holds the mammoth tusk, the quagga skin, and the silence they left behind.
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