The great mammalian megafauna are flourishing, and the hominid primates have become increasingly skilled at the use of fire and tool-making. |
Australia once boasted a spectacular megafauna including giant wombats as big as grizzly bears and giant kangaroos. |
Many of the extinct marsupial megafauna were large, herbivorous browsers, some weighing several tons. |
These are the megafauna, the big predators of the sea, and the species we most value. |
A visitor to America's Yellowstone National Park is sure to spot some of the large mammals, or megafauna, for which the region is justly famous. |
This dramatic shift to an ice-bound climate explains the existence of frozen mammoths and the demise of a number of megafauna. |