Genyornis
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Genyornis is an extinct genus of large, flightless bird that lived in Australia during the Pleistocene Epoch until around 40-50,000 years ago. Over two metres in height, they were likely herbivorous.
Life restoration
Blackened egg shells
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Confuciusornis plumage pattern
Late Pleistocene extinctions
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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 having body masses of 45 kg or more, which result
Genyornis
…group within the Anseriformes, which contains ducks and geese. Genyornis and many other Australian megafauna became extinct in Australia as part of the Late Pleistocene extinction event, coinciding with the arrival of humans. Evidence has been found for human consumption of Genyornis eggs, making it one of the few species of Australian…
Late Pleistocene in northern Spain, by Mauricio Antón. Left to right: wild horse, woolly mammoth, reindeer, cave lion, woolly rhinoceros
Mural of the La Brea Tar Pits by Charles R. Knight, including sabertooth cats (Smilodon fatalis, left) ground sloths (Paramylodon harlani, right) and Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi, background)
The proportion of extinct large mammal species (more than or equal to 10 kg (22 lb)) in each country during the last 132,000 years, only counting extinctions earlier than 1000 years BP (Note, Gray Areas on continents indicate land entirely covered in Glacial Ice at the time, and on islands, that man had not yet reached by this time i.e. no data either way)
Environment of what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico, with Columbian mammoths, a ground sloth, dire wolves, lions, camels, and saber-toothed cats.