There is evidence from prehistoric cave paintings, and from bones showing signs of cooking or carving, that humans lived alongside some very large extinct animals.
Just after the last Ice Age, woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses and giant cave bears lived in Europe. They were hunted by humans and, together with the warming climate; this may have led to their extinction. The giant ox was also prey for hunters. It became extinct in 1627, having survived in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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