How did the animals from the Stone Age become extinct?

A cataclysmic disaster occurred some time around 10000 BCE. The earth was in the warming stages, the ice sheets were melting, some slowly some rather quickly. Mammoths were getting fat on wild grasses. read more

The collisions wiped out huge numbers of animal species all over the world, disrupted the lives of our stone age ancestors and triggered a freeze that lasted more than 1,000 years. read more

Ancient horses lived in North America from about 50 million to 11,000 years ago, when they went extinct at the end of the last ice age, said Ross MacPhee, a curator of mammalogy at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. read more

During the Dark Ages, there were several animals around in Britain that you will not see today.; They have become 'extinct' in Britain. read more