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The Quaternary (/ k w ə ˈ t ɜːr n ə r i, ˈ k w ɒ t ər n ɛr i / kwə-TUR-nə-ree, KWOT-ər-nerr-ee) is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS), as well as the current and most recent of the twelve periods of the Phanerozoic eon. [3]
The extinction's extreme bias towards larger animals further supports a relationship with human activity rather than climate change. [145] There is evidence that the average size of mammalian fauna declined over the course of the Quaternary, [146] a phenomenon that was likely linked to disproportionate hunting of large animals by humans. [5]
Hypothetical species only known from a short 1630s description by Jesuit Jacques Bouton, though another short 1658 description of "Ara erythrura" is likely the same animal. Some authors consider these introduced blue-and-yellow macaws from South America, while others identify a slightly different macaw painted by Roelant Savery in 1626 as a ...
The largest living land animal, the African bush elephant, is a herbivore. This is a list of herbivorous animals, organized in a roughly taxonomic manner. In general, entries consist of animal species known with good certainty to be overwhelmingly herbivorous, as well as genera and families which contain a preponderance of such species.
Quaternary vertebrates of North America (4 C) Pages in category "Quaternary animals of North America" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
Aye-aye, angelfish, aardvark? This list of amazing animals is A+ worthy.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Quaternary animals (9 C) F. Quaternary fossil record (4 C, 12 P) H. Holocene life (3 C, 1 ...