{"id":29784,"date":"2026-09-07T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/07\/africas-giant-herbivores-were-disappearing-millions-of-years-before-humans-could-hunt-them-2\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T11:31:55","slug":"africas-giant-herbivores-were-disappearing-millions-of-years-before-humans-could-hunt-them-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/07\/africas-giant-herbivores-were-disappearing-millions-of-years-before-humans-could-hunt-them-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa\u2019s Giant Herbivores Were Disappearing Millions of Years Before Humans Could Hunt Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/africas-giant-herbivores-were-disappearing-millions-of-years-before-humans-could-hunt-them\/\" title=\"Africa\u2019s Giant Herbivores Were Disappearing Millions of Years Before Humans Could Hunt Them\"><\/a>Africa\u2019s giant herbivores did not simply vanish in a wave of extinctions. Their evolutionary family tree was slowly running out of new branches. A new study suggests that the long decline of animals such as elephants, hippopotamuses, and their extinct relatives was driven primarily by low rates of speciation. Once a giant species disappeared, another [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa\u2019s giant herbivores did not simply vanish in a wave of extinctions. Their evolutionary family tree was slowly running out of new branches. A new study suggests that the long decline of animals such as elephants, hippopotamuses, and their extinct relatives was driven primarily by low rates of speciation. Once a giant species disappeared, another &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/09\/07\/africas-giant-herbivores-were-disappearing-millions-of-years-before-humans-could-hunt-them-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Africa\u2019s Giant Herbivores Were Disappearing Millions of Years Before Humans Could Hunt Them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}