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.

These Pleistocene megafauna became extinct between 60,000 and 20,000 years ago. Hundreds of megafauna fossils have been discovered over the past decade.

For most extinct Pleistocene megafauna — animals weighing more than 100 pounds — there are still living analogs. Instead of mammoths, there are elephants.

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 ...

During the late Pleistocene, megafauna like mammoths, giant camels and sabertooth cats were key components of ecosystems throughout North America. Karen Carr, National Parks Service The loss of ...

But nothing changed in the Americas until the terminal Pleistocene, between 10,000 and 20,000 years ago—and humans didn't get there until sometime around 15,000 years ago.

Kangaroo species went extinct in the Pleistocene. ... "It's a question that's been plaguing paleontology for a couple of hundred years," says Sam Arman, a paleontologist at Megafauna Central, ...

Extinct giants, such as the American cheetah and ground sloth, lived in North America until they mysteriously died out about 10,000 years ago.

For a long time, everybody was talking about how megafauna went extinct 11,000 years ago, and humans got to the Americas 13,000 years ago. So the Overkill Hypothesis makes sense from this perspective.

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 ...

Archaeologists have shed light on how prehistoric humans in North America hunted megafauna, such as mammoths. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, proposes that these hunters used ...