Megafauna have always existed in Australia. But around 2.5 million years ago, they became enormous. The largest of these animals existed during a period of time known as the Pleistocene epoch ...

Giant mammals like dire wolves and saber-tooth cats were once common in North America. But these megafauna went extinct around the end of the Ice Ace.

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

The Pleistocene epoch lasted from about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago and included the last ice age, when glaciers and giant megafauna dominated the landscape.

Thaís Pansani examines the marks humans left on megafauna bones to determine when people arrived in South America and how they interacted with giant mammals ...

At the end of the Pleistocene Epoch around 11,700 years ago, mammoths and many other ice age icons called megafauna went extinct for reasons that remain murky.

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And the mass extinction of megafauna during the Pleistocene—along with a secondary wave of extinctions resulting from the disappearance of those keystone species—caused severe damage to the ...

The Pleistocene megafauna extinction erased a group of remarkable animals. Whether humans had a prominent role in the extinction remains controversial, but it is emerging that the disappearance of ...

His research has centered on the extinctions of Pleistocene megafauna, like the aforementioned mammoths and sloths. But in a recent paper, he and other researchers went back even further — 65 ...

If Pleistocene megafauna -- mastodons, mammoths, giant sloths and others -- had not become extinct, humans might not be eating pumpkin pie and squash for the holidays, according to an ...