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It’s amazing to think the amount of species lost at the end of the last ice age. Some amazing animals we just missed out on by a heartbeat of seeing. Megatherium, a sloth the size of an elephant… Mammoths, sabre-toothed cats, etc.
This whole story is BS – we all know the earth is only 5000 years old.
4.6 billion*
says who?
The reason being that the planet was hit with multiple comets 1200 years apart 12000 years ago….wiped out a lot more than animals.
@ Anto Mahon
Believe it or not, it was actually an Irishman who claimed the world was less than 5000 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
Lucky they were we probably would of just eat them or wore them.
@Talleyrand Frye good stuff pity he forgot to read Genesis 1:1 as this scripture shows that the earth could be billions of years old.
Its amazing to think in the last 40 years we have lost 50% of our worldwide wildlife http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/1409030-animals-wildlife-wwf-decline-science-world/
I heard Irish water cut them off for not paying
I think they had paid
Died of thirst waiting on the bar man in coppers
“All along these Mammoths where contributing to their own demise”. I wonder could man learn anything from that sentence
I could die of thirst with the price of beer
Again, this is a story abound a foreign country!
There never was – or never will be – any woolly mammoths in this catholic and holy country.
You will have to wait until SF/IRA get into power before we can expect total isolation from the outside world like N Korea.
Yes Leo – but, in the meantime, we have a language (Irish) that nobody else speaks and sports (GAA) that no-one else plays – so it’s a good start…
We also have our fair share of morons
Do you have to bring SF/IRA into a discussion about mammoths?
Leo is just butt hurt because he got his ass handed to him on another article about his bigotry, chap just isn`t very good at this posting lark, and tends to go from article to article spouting his crap
I think someone slagged off his Bowler hat that he was wearing a few weeks ago and he can`t seem to be able to keep it together since.
And SF/IRA never engaged in bigotry, bus?
You are Just like your mate Leo ,Dotrice
This article is about Mammoths, only the likes of you two could possibly drag bigotry, SF/IRA into it – Newsflash, you aren`t funny or controversial, or engaging
To put it simply, so your tiny little mind can understand,
You are just boring, repetitive and ridiculous.
I`d hazard a guess, that you are both the same person
Pathetic at best is how i would describe you
You brought up bigotry. Sad that insult is your only defense…☺
Last word
tool?
Not sure why we should feel sorry for them though seeing as they caused the ice-age in the first place.
Edna is a woolly mammoth!
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