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71Woolly mammoth — For the rock band, see Wooly Mammoth (band). For the theatre company, see Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company. Woolly mammoth Temporal range: Pleistocene Recent, 0.15–0 Ma …
72Timeline of extinctions — The timeline of extinctions is an historical account of species that have gone extinct during the time that modern humans have occupied the earth.Holocene Mass Extinction11th millennium BC*Circa 10,000 BC North America: Dire Wolf, Smilodon, Cave… …
73Life Sciences — ▪ 2009 Introduction Zoology In 2008 several zoological studies provided new insights into how species life history traits (such as the timing of reproduction or the length of life of adult individuals) are derived in part as responses to… …
74Tiger — This article is about the feline. For other uses, see Tiger (disambiguation). Tigress redirects here. For other uses, see Tigress (disambiguation). Tiger …
75Lion — For other uses, see Lion (disambiguation). Lion[1] Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to recent …
76Megafauna — This article is about large land animals. For naked eye visible bottom dwelling animals, see Macrobenthos. The African bush elephant, Earth s largest living land animal In terrestrial zoology, megafauna (Ancient Greek megas large + New Latin… …
77Quaternary extinction event — Late Pleistocene landscape of northern Eurasia The Quaternary period saw the extinctions of numerous predominantly larger, especially megafaunal, species, many of which occurred during the transition from the Pleistocene to the Holocene epoch.… …
78mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… …
79proboscidean — /proh beuh sid ee euhn, bo , proh bos i dee euhn/, adj. 1. pertaining to or resembling a proboscis. 2. having a proboscis. 3. belonging or pertaining to the mammals of the order Proboscidea, characterized by a flexible trunk formed of the… …
80conservation — conservational, adj. /kon seuhr vay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of conserving; prevention of injury, decay, waste, or loss; preservation: conservation of wildlife; conservation of human rights. 2. official supervision of rivers, forests, and other… …
