The dire wolf disappeared during the Quaternary megafauna extinction, a period when over 178 species of large mammals — known as megafauna — went extinct between 52,000 and 9,000 BCE ...

At the start of the Quaternary, the continents were just ... and most of these so-called megafauna went extinct. Only a handful of smaller, though still impressively large, representatives remain ...

We are focusing on extinct species from Europe and northern Asia, along with some from North America, including: We are using large compilations of carefully audited radiocarbon dates for each mammal ...

Researchers examined the fossil records of the site where the now extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon lived in Mount Etna in Queensland. They believe a change in climate could have contributed ...