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FORGOTTEN GIANTS

Painting by Charles Knight

Humanity never knew the dinosaurs. But Ice Age mammals were different. For tens of thousands of years, human beings lived alongside mammoths, mastodons, wooly rhinoceroses, and other creatures that have since gone extinct.

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