North America once teemed with extraordinary megafauna, including four species of elephants, dire wolves, massive sloths as large as elephants, and towering mammoths like the Imperial Mammoth, which reached 16 feet tall at the shoulder. Predators like the North American Pleistocene lion, the size of a horse, and the 1,500-pound short-faced bear roamed the continent alongside giant cave bears. These magnificent creatures vanished in a geological instant, leaving a legacy of wonder and mystery abo

349K views · 4.7K reactions | Across 50 ancient Clovis sites in North America, archaeologists found a strange carbon-rich “black mat.” What’s fascinating? Extinct megafauna bones and Clovis tools lie beneath this layer. Above it—nothing. The line marks a boundary… almost like history itself was reset. Coincidence? Or a clue to a forgotten catastrophe? | The Randall Carlson | Facebook