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The Little Ice Age
Georges Cuvier argued in a 1798 paper that mammoth fossils belonged to a distinct species by comparing them to what extinct animal? Elephants. Some people thought the mammoth fossils were remains from elephants brought to Italy by Hannibal or they might be fossils belonging to extant animals we just hadn't found yet. Between the early 14th century and the mid 18th century, Earth went through the Little Ice Age where temperature is dropped by as much as two degrees Celsius. It's thought to have made better wood for what musical instrument constructed by Antonio Stratavari.
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