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Cave art

Works of art by early people tell us a lot about extinct and modern animals.

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Pleistocene bison looked like modern types, but with thick manes and beards.

Cave art shows that the woolly rhinoceros had a band of darker hair around its middle.

The antlers on these red deer stags were probably exaggerated to look impressive.

The aurochs was a huge wild cow that stood 6.6 ft (2 m) at the shoulder.

Here, a mammoth overlaps an aurochs. The two wouldn’t have been so close in life!

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The giant beaver Castoroides was 8.2 ft (2.5 m) long and weighed 220 Ib (100 kg).

It lived in North America.

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your long, flexible trunk, which has two bendable “fingers” at the tip.

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Pleistocene

predators

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Varanus priscus, which was up to 23 ft (7 m) long.

M There were giant •-    cheetahs—50 percent

bigger than modern ones— in Europę and Asia.

M, Lions inhabited Europę, •- W-’ Asia, Africa, and North and South America.

/Bv Smilodon, from the o W-j Americas, is the best known saber-toothed cat.

Other saber-toothed cats lived in Africa, Europę, and Asia.

Large, wolflike dogs !v^tj lived in the Americas and Europę.

Weighing 8,800 Ib, Megatheńum was a giant ground sloth with deadly claws to use in self-defense.

Glyptodon, from the Americas, looked like a giant armadillo.

It was the same size as a Volkswagen Beetle car.

Coelodonta was a woolly rhino found across Europę and Asia. It was the same size as a modern white rhino.

Macrauchenia looked similar to a llama, but with a tapir’s trunk. It was around the same size as a camel.

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