The world's largest land mammal is the African bush elephant, which can be 13 feet tall and 24 feet long. But this elephant, and giraffes and hippos and other large mammals, could go extinct because of human activity, leaving the domestic cow as the biggest terrestrial mammal in a couple centuries, according to a new study. Researchers scrutinized large mammal extinction as humans spread, and their study is, according to the University of New Mexico, "the first to quantitatively show...that size...
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