Megafauna
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In terrestrial zoology, megafauna (Ancient Greek megas "large" + New Latin fauna "animal") are large or giant animals.
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See also
- Australian megafauna
- Bergmann's rule
- Charismatic megafauna
- Cope's rule
- Deep-sea gigantism
- Fauna
- Giant animals in fiction and mythology
- Island dwarfism
- Island gigantism
- Largest organisms
- Largest prehistoric organisms
- List of megafauna discovered in modern times
- New World Pleistocene extinctions
- Pleistocene megafauna
- Quaternary extinction event
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