In this video, we take you on a journey to the Pleistocene Epoch, a time when Earth looked vastly different from today.

These extinct species underscore the cave’s broader significance, providing critical insights into Pleistocene megafauna diversity and their coexistence with humans. Many species appear to have been ...

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 ...

Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years Ago Carbon dating of teeth fragments found in Brazil reveals that some species persisted for thousands of years longer than thought.

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

Researchers identified the fossil as Glyptodon reticulatus, a megafauna species from the Late Pleistocene epoch.

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 ...

A new study from archaeologists at UC Berkeley suggests that Pleistocene hunters likely used planted pikes, topped with sharp Clovis points, to kill megafauna like mammoths, mastodons, and even ...

Human interaction with megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene Epoch may have contributed to some mammalian extinctions.

While the climate changes of the Late Pleistocene )130,000 to 11,000 years ago) did impact various species, the most dramatic extinctions were primarily among large animals.

Megafauna were large land animals that roamed the Earth during the Pleistocene, existing millions of years after dinosaurs became extinct.