00:05lost giants the vanished beasts that once roamed America across North America lost animals left
00:12fossil beds museum skins old photographs and empty habitats behind the American mastodon
00:18pushed through ancient forests with curved tusks grinding leaves and branches before vanishing
00:22about 10,000 years ago the saber-toothed cat stalked ice-age grasslands using long canine
00:28teeth to attack large prey before disappearing after the last glacial period the dire wolf hunted
00:34across North America in powerful packs leaving thousands of bones inside California's La Brea tar
00:39pits the giant ground sloth walked through ancient woodlands with huge claws pulling leaves from trees
00:45before humans ever built American cities the passenger pigeon darkened American skies in enormous
00:51flocks until hunting and habitat loss erased the last bird in 1914 the Carolina parakeet flashed green
00:58and yellow through eastern forests but hunters disease and orchard conflicts ended the bird by 1918
01:02the sea mink prowled rocky New England shores where fur hunters trapped the large coastal mustelet into
01:08extinction the great auk stood on North Atlantic rocks using short wings for swimming before collectors
01:14and hunters destroyed the last breeding pairs the stellar sea cow floated through bearing sea kelp beds
01:19but hunters killed the slow giant within decades of its 1741 discovery these vanished American beasts share
01:26one pattern teeth wings claws and tusks could not outrun human pressure a museum case now holds the bones
01:33feathers and skins from animals America will never see alive again
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