In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals. The precise definition of the term varies...

beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna (typically defined as animal species having body masses over 44 kilograms...

The term Australian megafauna refers to the megafauna in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch. Most of these species became extinct during the latter...

up megafauna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Megafauna refers to living or extinct large or giant animals. Megafauna may also refer to: Megafauna (band)...

Charismatic megafauna are animal species that are large—in the relevant category that they represent—with symbolic value or widespread popular appeal...

(500–1,000 kg (1,100–2,200 lb)) and large (over 1,000 kg (2,200 lb)). Megafauna often form one of the mythemes of a story. The narrative may revolve around...

The following is a list of megafauna discovered by science since the beginning of the 19th century (with their respective date of discovery). Some of...

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gigantism such as a more robust bodyplan and occupying niches taken by megafauna elsewhere (in this case, theropod dinosaurs). However, similar sized giant...

the reintroduction of extant Pleistocene megafauna, or the close ecological equivalents of extinct megafauna. It is an extension of the conservation practice...

became extinct soon after first human settlement, including the Australian megafauna; others have disappeared since European settlement, among them the thylacine...

the foremost authority of his time on other marsupials and Australian megafauna, which were enigmatic to European science. Diprotodon is the largest-known...

stressed the megafauna to the point of extinction. Some scientists favor abrupt climate change as the catalyst for the extinction of the megafauna at the end...

American Megafauna is a board game on the topic of evolution designed by Phil Eklund, and published by Sierra Madre Games in 1997. While the game is not...

generally agreed that these groups were reliant on hunting big game (megafauna), having a particularly strong association with mammoths, and to a lesser...

2013-12-02. Turvey, Samuel (2013). "Holocene survival of Late Pleistocene megafauna in China: a critical review of the evidence". Quaternary Science Reviews...

contain 10% of Earth's species. 83% of South America's large mammals (megafauna) became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene around 11,000 years ago...

migrations. Paleoindians lived alongside and hunted many now extinct megafauna (large animals), with most large animals across the Americas becoming...

still existed, the synapsid amniotes evolved the first truly terrestrial megafauna (giant animals) in the form of pelycosaurs, such as Edaphosaurus and the...

for most large mammals in South America as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, suggesting that the hunting may have had a causal role in...

only by a select few. The G-Self is recaptured by the Amerian spaceship Megafauna, and Bellri subsequently helps fend off attacks by the "Capital Army"—a...

planned. The tiger is among the most popular of the world's charismatic megafauna. It has been kept in captivity since ancient times and has been trained...

climate change,: p. 16021  contributed to extinctions of late Pleistocene megafauna, and resulted in the disappearance of the Clovis culture. The Comet research...

and curtailed food supply. A major extinction event of large mammals (megafauna), which included mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, glyptodons,...

facing functional extinction once migrated into Baltic Sea. Other notable megafauna include the basking sharks. Satellite images taken in July 2010 revealed...

forms and lived as fruit and foliage eaters in forests. The first of the megafauna to emerge were the brontotheres, in the Middle and Upper Eocene. Megacerops...

tourists and safari tour operators. They are examples of charismatic megafauna, featuring prominently in popular culture, and are among the most famous...

carcass and bone associated with the hunting and scavenging of Pleistocene megafauna. Compared with modern wolves, some Pleistocene wolves showed an increase...

size of many of the taxa. Megafauna are large animals of any particular region or time. For example, Australian megafauna. Meiofauna are small benthic...