Scientists at the University of Cambridge say that many of the large animals that went extinct over the past 100,000 years or so were primarily killed off by a combination of climate change and human activity. Very few such creatures remain today.
Elephants and rhinoceroses are good example of large animals that managed to endure, but countless others weren't so lucky. The last 100 millennia were not very kind on these large beasts, experts say.
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Some of the most iconic species that were lost include mammoths, mastodons, giant sloths, woolly rhinos, giant kangaroos and wombats, and the giant flightless birds called moas, of New Zealand.
