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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Charismatic megafauna are animal species that are large—in the relevant category that they represent—with symbolic value or widespread popular appeal...
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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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Late Pleistocene extinctions (redirect from Pleistocene megafauna)
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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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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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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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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Island gigantism (redirect from Island megafauna)
bush, or tree). Deep-sea gigantism Island tameness Insular dwarfism Megafauna Pleistocene extinctions The reduction in predation on islands often also...
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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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Pleistocene rewilding (redirect from Restoring Descendants of Pleistocene Megafauna to North America)
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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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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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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Clovis culture (section Megafauna extinction)
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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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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migrations. Paleoindians lived alongside and hunted many now extinct megafauna (large animals), with most large animals across the Americas becoming...
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favorably selected in the past due to their coevolution with plant-eating megafauna that are now extinct. Diminished effectiveness and distance of seed dispersal...
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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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still existed, the synapsid amniotes evolved the first truly terrestrial megafauna (giant animals) in the form of pelycosaurs, such as Edaphosaurus and the...
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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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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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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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facing functional extinction once migrated into Baltic Sea. Other notable megafauna include the basking sharks. Satellite images taken in July 2010 revealed...
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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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carcass and bone associated with the hunting and scavenging of Pleistocene megafauna. Compared with modern wolves, some Pleistocene wolves showed an increase...
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artefacts with fossil remains of Australian megafauna. Cuddie Springs has been known as a fossil megafauna locality since the late 1870s, when a well was...
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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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