enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Late Pleistocene extinctions - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Pleistocene_extinctions

   The extinctions during the Late Pleistocene are differentiated from previous extinctions by its extreme size bias towards large animals (with small animals being largely unaffected), and widespread absence of ecological succession to replace these extinct megafaunal species, [3] and the regime shift of previously established faunal ...

3. List of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ice_Age_species...

   This is a list of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies during the Late Pleistocene. It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic and Subarctic. Most went extinct during the Late Pleistocene extinctions while some are still extant today. They have been listed ...

4. Macrauchenia - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrauchenia

   Macrauchenia became extinct as part of the end-Pleistocene extinction event at the end of the Late Pleistocene, around 12–10,000 years ago, along with most large mammals native to the Americas. The extinctions followed the arrival of humans in the Americas , [ 34 ] which in South America occurred at least 14,500 years ago (as evidenced by ...

5. Coragyps occidentalis - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coragyps_occidentalis

   Coragyps occidentalis, the Pleistocene black vulture, is an extinct species of New World vulture that lived throughout North and South America during the Pleistocene.It was formerly thought to be the ancestor to the modern black vulture (C. atratus), but is now thought to have evolved from it; the modern black vulture is paraphyletic with respect to it.

6. Palaeoloxodon recki - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeoloxodon_recki

   Palaeoloxodon recki, often known by the synonym Elephas recki, is an extinct species of elephant native to Africa and West Asia from the Pliocene or Early Pleistocene to the Middle Pleistocene. During most of its existence, the species (in its broad sense) represented the dominant elephant species in East Africa. [1]

7. Cuvieronius - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuvieronius

   Cuvieronius is an extinct New World genus of gomphothere which ranged from southern North America to western South America during the Pleistocene epoch. Reaching a shoulder height of 2.3 metres (7.5 ft) and a body mass of 3.5 tonnes (7,700 lb), it was on average shorter but comparable in body mass to an Asian elephant.

8. Hippidion - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippidion

   Hippidion (meaning little horse) is an extinct genus of equine that lived in South America from the Late Pliocene to the end of the Late Pleistocene , between 2.5 million and 11,000 years ago. They were one of two lineages of equines native to South America during the Pleistocene epoch, alongside Equus (Amerhippus) neogeus .

9. Equus mauritanicus - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_mauritanicus

   Equus mauritanicus, the Saharan zebra, is an extinct species of equine which lived in North Africa during the Late Pleistocene and possibly the Holocene, as recently as 6,000 years ago. E. mauritanicus has in the past been considered synonymous with the living plains zebra (E. quagga), but examination of several skulls show it to be distinct ...