{"id":37654,"date":"2018-04-20T02:26:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T00:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/20\/cow-could-soon-be-largest-land-mammal-left-due-to-human-activity-study\/"},"modified":"2018-04-20T02:26:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T00:26:20","slug":"cow-could-soon-be-largest-land-mammal-left-due-to-human-activity-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=37654","title":{"rendered":"Cow could soon be largest land mammal left due to human activity \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers examining extinction of large mammals as humans spread across the world see worrying trend The cow could be left as the biggest land mammal on Earth in a few centuries, according to a new study that examines the extinction of large mammals as humans spread around the world. The spread of hominims \u2013 early humans and related species such as Neanderthals \u2013 from Africa thousands of years ago coincided with the extinction of megafauna such as the mammoth, the sabre-toothed tiger and the glyptodon, an armadillo-like creature the size of a car. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/apr\/20\/cow-could-soon-be-largest-mammal-left-due-to-human-activity-study-says\" target=\"_blank\">Cow could soon be largest land mammal left due to human activity \u2013 study<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers examining extinction of large mammals as humans spread across the world see worrying trend The cow could be left as the biggest land mammal on Earth in a few centuries, according to a new study that examines the extinction of large mammals as humans spread around the world. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}