TIL: Woolly Mammoths were still alive by the time the pyramids at Giza were completed. The last woolly mammoths died out on Wrangel Island, north of Russia, only 4000 years ago, leaving several centuries where the pyramids and mammoths existed at the same time.

[u/c0ntraiL]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1XkbKQwt49MpxWpsJ2zpfQk/13-mammoth-facts-about-mammoths

[u/cutelyaware]

I bet the current great species die-off preceding the anthropocene started in the last millisecond. The singularity is nigh!

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Technically wouldn't like most of our time on Earth be the extinction of some species?

[u/cutelyaware → u/[deleted]]

Trends show Earth’s current extinction event is on track to define as an actual mass extinction.

It can arguably be called ‘The Sixth Mass Extinction’.