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A list of prehistoric animals that lived in the Pleistocene epoch, from 2.58 million to 11.7 thousand years ago. The category has subcategories for different continents and invertebrates and vertebrates.
Learn about the Pleistocene Epoch, the time of glacial and interglacial cycles, and the extinction and evolution of many plants and animals. Find out how geologists define and date the Pleistocene, and what fossils and rocks reveal about its history.
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 over 44 kilograms (97 lb)), [1] which resulted in a collapse in faunal density and diversity across the globe. [2]
Learn about the plants and animals that lived during the Pleistocene, a time of major climate change and human evolution. Explore the diversity, distribution, and extinction of Pleistocene fauna and flora, and how they adapted to environmental variations.
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.
The Pleistocene Epoch. This mammoth (right), found in deposits in Russia, was one of the largest land mammals of the Pleistocene, the time period that spanned from 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago.*
1 lut 2024 · Learn about the giant mammals that lived in the Pleistocene, a time period between 2.58 million and 11,700 years ago. Find out why they became extinct and what scientists can learn from their fossils.
