(task) Earth’s mammals have shrunk dramatically, and humans are to blame - The Washington Post

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> Within a few hundred years, a new study says, the domestic cow might be Earth’s biggest animal. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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> Life on Earth used to look a lot more impressive. Just a little more than 100,000 years ago, there were sloths as long as a giraffe is tall, monstrous bears whose shoulders were six feet off the ground, and Bunyanesque beavers that weighed as much as an NFL linebacker. But over...
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