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Tiny island deer in Panama hunted to extinction thousands of years ago

As polar ice caps melted at the end of the last Ice Age about 8,500 years ago, the global sea level rose and Panama's Pearl Islands were isolated from the mainland. A new archaeological Study by a team including a Smithsonian scientist shows that several thousand years later pre-Columbian colonists Hunted a dwarf Deer to extinction on an Island called Pedro González. María Fernández-Polanco is the lead author of a study about a small...

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