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The following are lists of prehistoric animals: By type. Land and avian animals. List of prehistoric amphibian genera; List of prehistoric mammals;
Ca. 37,000-year-old cub of Homotherium latidens found near the Badyarikha River, Siberia.. This is a list of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies.It includes all known species that have had their tissues partially preserved within the permafrost layer of the Arctic and Subarctic.
Entelodontidae is an extinct family of pig-like artiodactyls (even-toed ungulates) which inhabited the Northern Hemisphere (Asia, Europe, and North America) from the late Eocene [1] to the early Miocene epochs, about 38-19 million years ago.
Together, the fossil pieces tell the story of a creature that defied all expectations based on the evolutionary paths of better-known animals from the time, which mostly lived closer to the equator.
A fossil reveals how a now-extinct species of dugong was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by a crocodile and a tiger shark.
Daeodon shoshonensis life restoration Daeodon (Dinohyus) hollandi, complete skeleton from the Agate Springs Fossil Quarry in Nebraska. See text for nomenclature history. Daeodon is an extinct genus of entelodont even-toed ungulates that inhabited North America about 29 to 15.97 million years ago during the latest Oligocene and earliest Miocene.
A species that is extinct in the wild is one which has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as only known by living members kept in captivity or as a naturalized population outside its historic range due to massive habitat loss. A species is declared extinct in the wild after thorough surveys have ...
Monsters We Met is a documentary produced by the BBC that later aired as a special on Animal Planet in 2004 (under the title, Land of Lost Monsters). The show used computer-generated imagery to recreate the life of the giant animals that lived during the last ice age and explains how early humans encountered them. It also features humans as the ...