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  2. Late Pleistocene extinctions - Wikipedia

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    The Late Pleistocene saw the extinction of many mammals weighing more than 40 kilograms (88 lb), including around 80% of mammals over 1 tonne. The proportion of megafauna extinctions is progressively larger the further the human migratory distance from Africa, with the highest extinction rates in Australia, and North and South America. [11]

  3. Late Pleistocene - Wikipedia

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    The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently defined as the time between c. 129,000 and c ...

  4. List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene

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    Extinct in the late Pleistocene or early Holocene. [2] Capromys pilorides lewisi: Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman, Cayman Islands Most recently dated in Grand Cayman to 1439-1643 and in Cayman Brac to 1440-1624. A 1585 reference by Francis Drake to "coneys" and cat-sized "little beasts" on the islands could refer to this animal. [10]

  5. Category:Pleistocene animals - Wikipedia

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    Prehistoric animals of the Pleistocene epoch, existing between 2.58 million and 11.7 thousand years ago, during the early Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era

  6. List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species - Wikipedia

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    Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded history, specifically before they could be studied alive by ornithological science. They had died out before the period of global scientific exploration that started in the late 15th ...

  7. List of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies

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    Permafrost mummies provide crucial insights into the physiology and life histories of Pleistocene organisms, due to how well the preservation process keeps the specimens from decomposing. The constant presence of permafrost is able to preserve the soft tissues of organisms through a process similar to freeze-drying. [ 1 ]

  8. Category:Pleistocene animals of North America - Wikipedia

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    Pleistocene reptiles of North America (2 P) Pages in category "Pleistocene animals of North America" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.

  9. Pleistocene - Wikipedia

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    At the end of the last ice age, cold-blooded animals, smaller mammals like wood mice, migratory birds, and swifter animals like whitetail deer had replaced the megafauna and migrated north. Late Pleistocene bighorn sheep were more slender and had longer legs than their descendants today. Scientists believe that the change in predator fauna ...