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Monday, October 26, 2015

Large, violent animal packs shaped the ecosystems of the Pleistocene epoch

Intense, violent attacks by large packs of some of the world's biggest carnivores -- including extinct lions much larger than those of today, and sabertooth cats -- limited the population sizes of mammoths, mastodons and other species, and prevented widespread habitat destruction in the Pleistocene Epoch.

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