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The Late Pleistocene to the beginning of the Holocene saw the extinction of the majority of the world's megafauna (typically defined as animal species...

similar or greater species richness in megafauna as compared to ecosystems in Africa today. During the Late Pleistocene, particularly from around 50,000 years...

to live through the Late mid-Pleistocene since there were no extinction events of megafauna until the end of the Late Pleistocene. Some species which...

plants. The Clovis hunters may have contributed to the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions in North America, though this idea has been subject to controversy...

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

Paleoindian period as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions. The potential role of human hunting in the extinctions has been the subject of much controversy...

as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, along with every other Australian animal over 100 kg (220 lb); the extinction was possibly caused...

Museum of Hoaxes. Stuart, A. J. (November 1991). "Mammalian extinctions in the Late Pleistocene of northern Eurasia and North America". Biological Reviews...

fossilis) in Eurasia date to around 700,000 years ago (with possible late Early Pleistocene records). It is closely related and probably ancestral to the American...

Holocene extinction was preceded by the extinction of most large (megafaunal) animals during the Late Pleistocene (Quaternary megafaunal extinctions), a decline...

Pleistocene rewilding is the advocacy of the reintroduction of extant Pleistocene megafauna, or the close ecological equivalents of extinct megafauna...

with the proposed extinction interval for most large mammals in South America as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, suggesting that the...

extinct 12-10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, along with all other mainland ground sloths...

extinct in Europe around 50-10,000 years ago as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions (though some authors have argued that the dwarf elephant...

Brody; Svenning, Jens-Christian (4 June 2014). "Global late Quaternary megafauna extinctions linked to humans, not climate change". Proceedings of the...

into large herbivores in the Paleogene. As part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, 80% of megaherbivore species became extinct, with megaherbivores...

dramatic decline during the Late Pleistocene as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions, with all remaining non-elephantid proboscideans (including...

consensus on Late Triassic chronology For much of the 20th century, the study of mass extinctions was hampered by insufficient data. Mass extinctions, though...

Americas, approximately 12,000 years ago, as part of the Late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions of most large mammals across the Americas. Bones of the...

lived during the Late Pleistocene. The grey wolf is one of the few large carnivores to survive the Late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions, but similar to...