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    In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals. The precise definition of the term varies...
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    The term Australian megafauna refers to the megafauna in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch. Most of these species became extinct during the latter...
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    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...
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  • up megafauna in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Megafauna refers to living or extinct large or giant animals. Megafauna may also refer to: Megafauna (band)...
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    Charismatic megafauna are animal species that are large—in the category that they represent—with symbolic value or widespread popular appeal, and are...
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  • Megafauna is the seventh studio album by Northern Irish band And So I Watch You from Afar. It was released on 9 August 2024. The album was preceded by...
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    (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...
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  • Megafauna is a hard rock band from Austin, Texas. Founded by singer/guitarist Dani Neff in 2008, the band also consists of Zack Humphrey on drums, Will...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    the reintroduction of extant Pleistocene megafauna, or the close ecological equivalents of extinct megafauna. It is an extension of the conservation practice...
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    became extinct soon after first human settlement, including the Australian megafauna; others have disappeared since European settlement, among them the thylacine...
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    migrations. Paleoindians lived alongside and hunted many now extinct megafauna (large animals), with most large animals across the Americas becoming...
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    the foremost authority of his time on other marsupials and Australian megafauna, which were enigmatic to European science. Diprotodon is the largest-known...
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    generally agreed that these groups were reliant on hunting big game (megafauna), having a particularly strong association with mammoths, and to a lesser...
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    2013-12-02. Turvey, Samuel (2013). "Holocene survival of Late Pleistocene megafauna in China: a critical review of the evidence". Quaternary Science Reviews...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Giant animal may refer to: Megafauna, the largest animal species Megafauna (mythology), large animals in mythology Gigantism in animals Largest organisms...
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    Retrieved August 8, 2017. Goodyear, Dana (March 25, 2023). "Hunting Megafauna with Andy Samberg". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved December...
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    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...
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  • considered a part of the Australian megafauna, its body mass excludes it from most formal definitions of megafauna. It is better described as a more robust...
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    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...
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  • paleoburrow is an underground shelter excavated by extinct paleo-vertebrate megafauna that lived in the prehistoric era. Most paleoburrows are likely made by...
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    Fauna (section Megafauna)
    size of many of the taxa. Megafauna are large animals of any particular region or time. For example, Australian megafauna. Meiofauna are small benthic...
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    and curtailed food supply. A major extinction event of large mammals (megafauna), which included mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats, glyptodons,...
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    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...
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    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...
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    "Sizing ocean giants: patterns of intraspecific size variation in marine megafauna". PeerJ. e715: e715. doi:10.7717/peerj.715. PMC 4304853. PMID 25649000...
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