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In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history - and our part in it - is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face an intensified replay of that great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history.

The Legendary George Van Tassel lived at Giant Rock out at a remote area located in the Mojave Desert during the early '50s, the 60s. This was a definitive time period of UFO discovery that was at the crossroads of a movement that acknowledged contact with Extraterrestrials Extra-Dimensional Super Sensible Entities or ESE’s. Between the ages of 4 to 10 years old this to this day with the continue to have numerous UFO sightings and contact with ESE’s that are unexplainable within and any linear terminology. Jeff Crawford was also living out there during this same time period also ...

More than 10,000 years ago spectacularly large mammals roamed the pampas and jungles of South America. This book tells the story of these great beasts during and just after the Pleistocene, the geological epoch marked by the great ice ages. Megafauna describes the history and way of life of these animals, their comings and goings, and what befell them at the beginning of the modern era and the arrival of humans.