Megafauna
"In terrestrial zoology, megafauna (Ancient Greek megas "large" + New Latin fauna "animal") are large or giant animals. . . .
In practice, the most common usage encountered in academic and popular writing describes land mammals roughly larger than a human that are not (solely) domesticated. The term is especially associated with the Pleistocene megafauna – the land animals often larger than modern counterparts considered archetypical of the last ice age, such as mammoths, the majority of which in northern Eurasia, the Americas and Australia became extinct as recently as 10,000–40,000 years ago."
In practice, the most common usage encountered in academic and popular writing describes land mammals roughly larger than a human that are not (solely) domesticated. The term is especially associated with the Pleistocene megafauna – the land animals often larger than modern counterparts considered archetypical of the last ice age, such as mammoths, the majority of which in northern Eurasia, the Americas and Australia became extinct as recently as 10,000–40,000 years ago."
- Text from Wikipedia entry for "Megafauna" (accessed 3/19/2016)
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Blog Posts and Articles
- "Clyde Winters Goes in Search of Elephants in Ancient America, and the Africans Who Brought Them There" (Jason Colavito, 7/26/2016)
- "Flash-Frozen Mammoths and Their Buttercups: Yet Another Case of Repetition and Recycling of Bad Data" (Jason Colavito, 2/6/2016)
- "Dining on Frozen Mammoth Steaks: The Evolution of a Strange Rumor" (Jason Colavito, 2/5/2016)
- "The Elephants of Ether: Mormons and the Mastodon Problem" (Andy White, 2/27/2015)
Other Online Sources
- Mammoth Tales (blog of John J. McKay)