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Ep. 385: A Wild New World

The MeatEater Podcast

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What Caused the Extinction of Mammoths?

It looks like there have been animals that were once on the earth and are now gone. That ultimately begins to raise the question of, so why are they gone? And the next thought that occurs to you in a logical chain from that one is what would cause an animal to go extinct? What factors out there in the world would produce something like the complete loss of an animal? This is a whole new area, as I think you gathered when you read this, of thinking about how the world works.

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