Megafauna

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Definitions and meanings of "Megafauna"

What do we mean by megafauna?

Large or relatively large animals of a particular region, period, or habitat. noun

The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group. noun

A treatise on such a group of large animals. noun

The large animals of a given region or time, considered as a group.

A treatise on such a group of large animals.

Megafauna- adj . Large or huge,they are now extinct. This is considered as a group. Urban Dictionary

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The word "megafauna" in example sentences

In a future where all megafauna is extinct and where technologically advanced humans are highly skilled at genetic engineering, future people 500 years hence genetically create ungulate-like grassland people, cold-weather tundra people, scansorial forest and woodland people, and gilled, seal-like aquatic people (Dixon 1990). ❋ Darren Naish (2006)

I'm also researching Mongolian megafauna, which is a little too much fun, as it justifies things like watching Walking with Beasts and so forth. ❋ Kylecassidy (2009)

Until twenty thousand years ago, giant mammals, the so-called megafauna, were found in the Cerrado. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Until the oversized beasts known as megafauna went extinct, our ancestors had to learn to survive on a landscape populated with creatures like sabre-toothed tigers, oversized eagles, and plodding giant sloths. ❋ Unknown (2004)

SYDNEY, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- A species of giant ancient turtle outlived most of the outsized, extinct animals known as megafauna -- until humans came along, Australian researchers say. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But about 13,000 years ago, not long after the first humans arrived in the New World, all but a few of these remarkable creatures--collectively known as megafauna--had vanished. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Minnesota and Wisconsin were populated by a variety of very large animals called megafauna which lived in the cold climate on the margins of the glacial ice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The boys 'discoveries help illustrate and remind people of the large animals, known as megafauna, that used to live in Colorado during the Ice Age. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And in Canada designer Amy Nugent has taken things a step further, "harvesting" highway hits from bears and moose (what you might call megafauna) through to porcupines to fashion a celebrated jewellery range (www. roadquill.ca) that includes bracelets and tie slides. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"megafauna" - large animals such as mammoths, bison, camels and mastodons. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As the climate changed, the Clovis people fell prey to the same problem that the "megafauna" had -- whatever it may have been. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The dire wolf, or canis dirus is only one of the many large animal species or "megafauna" that became extinct in North America about 11,500 years ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Woolly mammoths, giant sloths, saber-toothed cats and dozens of other species of "megafauna" may have become extinct when a disintegrating comet or asteroid exploded over North America with the force of millions of hydrogen bombs, according to research by an international team of scientists. ❋ Gregvaneekhout (2007)

It turns out that the "megafauna" e.g., giant, fantastical monstrous beasts of Australia likely co-existed with its earliest human inhabitants, who had to dodge "three tonne wombats" and the "world's all-time biggest lizard." ❋ K. A. Laity (2005)

The following is classified as [megafauna]: [Mammoth],Megalania,[Smilodon],and the Short-faced bear. ❋ Stevenson (2006)

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