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The Disappearance of Mammoths and Mastodons

Caption: These are mastodons eating black ash trees. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Nov. 20 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Victoria Gill of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and colleagues, was titled, "Pleistocene Megafaunal Collapse, Novel Plant Communities, and Enhanced Fire Regimes in North America."

Credit: [Image courtesy of Barry Roal Carlsen, University of Wisconsin-Madison]

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