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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
Late Pleistocene in northern Spain, by Mauricio Antón. Left to right: wild horse, woolly mammoth, reindeer, cave lion, woolly rhinoceros
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
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 exti
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-too
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.
Dire wolf
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The dire wolf is an extinct species of canine which was native to the Americas during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene epochs. The species was named in 1858, four years after the first specimen
Late Pleistocene extinctions
…kirchbergensis) Narrow-nosed rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus hemiotoechus) Carnivora Caniformia Canidae Caninae Wolves Cave wolf (Canis lupus spelaeus) Dire wolf? (Aenocyon dirus) Dholes European dhole (Cuon alpinus europaeus) Sardinian dhole (Cynotherium sardous) Arctoidea Various Ursus spp. Ursus kanivetz…
Canis dirus Sternberg Museum
Canis dirus Sternberg Museum
Display at the Page Museum of 404 dire wolf skulls found in the La Brea Tar Pits
Display at the Page Museum of 404 dire wolf skulls found in the La Brea Tar Pits
Life restoration by Erwin S. Christman, 1916
Life restoration by Erwin S. Christman, 1916
Gray wolf skeleton (left) and dire wolf skeleton
Gray wolf skeleton (left) and dire wolf skeleton