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Study shows big game hunters, not climate change, killed off sloths

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Prehistoric big game hunters and not the last ice age are the likely culprits in the extinction of giant ground sloths and other North American great mammals such as mammoths, mastodons and saber-toothed tigers, says a University of Florida researcher.

Filed under Environment, Natural History, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, August 3, 2005.