megafauna

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We'd know a whole lot about charismatic megafauna, and not very much about much else.

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  • There are encounters with prehistoric megafauna, beautiful and willing savage women, war between stone-age tribes, weird shamanistic rites, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, and a boy's own enthusiasm for bagging big game. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • Those three things are the extinction of the megafauna, the disappearance of the Clovis culture and the climate change of the Younger Dryas. —  Google News - Top Stories
  • At this point of time, "We really don't know," acknowledged Corlett, who plans to investigate this question with studies in the few remaining sites where terrestrial megafauna are still present in near natural densities: parts of Taman Negara, Huai Kha Kheng in Thailand's western forest complex and Danum Valley in Sabah. —  The annotated budak
  • Scientists have long debated whether the demise of Australian megafauna was due to human arrival, climate change, or a combination of the two factors. —  Mongabay.com News
  • Wild horses certainly have a solid place among other "charismatic megafauna," as those popular species with widespread public support are known.
 

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