megafauna
noun
mega·fau·na
ˈme-gə-ˌfȯ-nə 
-ˌfä-
1
: animals (such as bears, bison, or mammoths) of particularly large size
2
: fauna consisting of individuals large enough to be visible to the naked eye
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Formally established in 1994, this famed preserve has undergone a truly marvelous evolution over the decades, morphing from a surface mining site to a verdant preserve that’s loaded with fascinating megafauna.
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
The New Ecosystem Engineers The model charted yet another fluctuation in seed size at around 50,000 years ago, when the Late Pleistocene extinctions caused megafauna like mammoths to begin vanishing.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
Guests can venture out on two game drives each day, with a team of expert guides at-the-ready to point out Kenya’s most marvelous megafauna in the flesh.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different place: a verdant world of trees and rivers and home to megafauna such as hippos and elephants.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
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Jared Ranahan, Forbes.com, 27 Apr. 2025
The New Ecosystem Engineers The model charted yet another fluctuation in seed size at around 50,000 years ago, when the Late Pleistocene extinctions caused megafauna like mammoths to begin vanishing.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
Guests can venture out on two game drives each day, with a team of expert guides at-the-ready to point out Kenya’s most marvelous megafauna in the flesh.
—Jared Ranahan, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether different place: a verdant world of trees and rivers and home to megafauna such as hippos and elephants.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2025
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“Megafauna.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/megafauna. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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