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At the end of the last ice age, an estimated 44 million megafauna died, 24 million of them in North America, and the standard explanation is that indigenous hunters drove them to extinction. Matt questions that account, pointing to massive bone yards across the far north, especially in Siberia, that in his reading suggest the animals died all at once. When explorers mapped the New Siberian Islands in the early 1900s, they reported entire mammoths flash frozen with undigested food in their stomachs and even in their throats.