megafauna

(noun)

the large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group

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Examples of megafauna in the following topics:

  • The Pleistocene Extinction

    • Biodiversity loss, especially the disappearance of megafauna, during the Pleistocene Extinction has been linked to the arrival of humans.
    • It is well known that the North American, and to some degree Eurasian, megafauna disappeared toward the end of the last glaciation period.