This is a list of European species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 …

Some of the direct evidence for this includes: fossils of some megafauna found in conjunction with human remains, embedded arrows and tool cut marks found in megafaunal bones, and …

In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals. The precise definition of the term varies widely, though a common threshold is …

The megafauna that still survive in Europe today are very familiar to us: red deer, caribou, bison, brown bears and wolves. Some, like the cave lion and cave hyena, were really modern …

Mar 8, 2025 · Why did cave lions and leopards become extinct in Europe? What happened to the big cats that ruled Europe? Why did these fearless predators disappear?

Nov 17, 2023 · The loss in megafauna diversity and associated ecological processes were high everywhere, but particularly in western Europe for carnivores and in the East European Plain …

May 25, 2022 · Large mammals (megafauna) have crucial roles to play in European ecosystems, but have suffered great losses in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. In a new study, we find …

Nov 17, 2023 · We estimated the diversity and functional decline of European megafauna in the present compared with the nearest in‐time climate period analogue to the present but prior to …

Dec 13, 2007 · Summary chart showing current interpretation of the chronology of extinction for megafaunal species in Europe and eschweizerbartxxx sng- Northern Asia. Solid lines: species …

To overcome these limitations, we here provide detailed esti-mates of megafauna species ranges for the Last Interglacial (LIG; 129,000–120,000 years ago) in Europe, supported by the …