Interesting article on the giant beavers, here:
https://earthsky.org/earth/why-giant-beavers-went-extinct
As they were aquatic plant eaters, I suspect the oversize beavers had more to fear from Man than Man did from the beavers.
Still, it is interesting to consider that there was evidently a big enough change to a dryer* climate around 10k years ago to knock out the giant beavers, which were not local ecosystem engineers, as are modern beavers. (The article contradicts itself regarding temperatures, so I’ll not speculate about such.)
And to think I missed the giant beavers. Damn!
Giant beavers? How big was it?
It was so big I had to strap a two-by-four to my ...
Hey, where’s Laz? I want ask him if he ever met a giant beaver.
Used to know a girl from West Beavers Falls. She had a blonde beaver.
It’s a little known fact that giant beavers are now located next to Uranus.