How to Use megafauna in a Sentence

megafauna

noun

• Only about 40 of the megafauna, the biggest of the big, died out at the end of the Ice Age.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 14 Dec. 2021
• Over the course of evolution, immense megafauna have roamed the lands or swum in the seas.
  — Jeffrey M. Rodgers, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2022
• The most recent dry spell was around 1,500 years ago—around the time when all the megafauna species went extinct.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• Best to take the play’s cue and focus less on the people and more on the charismatic megafauna.
  — Vulture, 30 Mar. 2023
• The widespread megafauna of the late Pleistocene did not simply drop dead in unison.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 14 Mar. 2011
• So why was the role of humans in the demise of the Australian megafauna so heavily debated over the years?
  — Fox News, 6 Dec. 2019
• New Zealand is a perfect place to study the effects of megafauna on their landscape.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• In fact, the last stand of these megafauna took place in a unique Arctic ecosystem that doesn't exist today.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 30 Oct. 2021
• The Earth has long been home to startlingly massive megafauna.
  — Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 9 July 2020
• But there were also megafauna that went extinct at the end of the ice age, like mammoths, mastodons, saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths.
  — Denise Su, The Conversation, 27 June 2022
• In fact, White Sands has the highest concentration of megafauna tracks in the United States.
  — Hayden Carpenter, Outside Online, 3 July 2018
• If there’s one person who may be able to lure the charismatic megafauna, it’s Karen Pierce, the British ambassador.
  — New York Times, 18 June 2021
• Yet things are looking up for this most charismatic of megafauna.
  — The Economist, 16 Sep. 2017
• Here in Alaska, foxes seem to get overlooked among the charismatic megafauna that tourists come to see.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2020
• Those stressors, coupled with megadroughts, brought about the end of Madagascar’s megafauna.
  — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Oct. 2020
• In a village just outside Kafue, Gertrude Mwiba is one of those trying to rub along with the local megafauna.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Across the Arctic, the warming climate is melting tens of thousands of years of permafrost, and long-dead megafauna are emerging.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2020
• The main debate is whether the paintings at La Lindosa depict long-extinct megafauna.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• Koalas are a national icon and, like many other charismatic megafauna, a boon for tourism.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 June 2024
• Japanese, mostly—to gather in public places and team up to make quick work of the megafauna that roam its bucolic scenes.
  — Simon Parkin, Ars Technica, 26 June 2017
• Extinct megafauna like the mammoth and ground sloth weren’t just hapless prey or passive victims of climate change.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• Serengeti for the vast herds of bison and elk and the constellations of other charismatic megafauna that inhabit the park.
  — Frederick Reimers, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2019
• But tens of thousands of years after these megafauna did their digging, those tunnels still dot this part of South America.
  — Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2017
• In the most recent study, the team writes that various depictions on the rock art of La Lindosa could portray long-extinct Ice Age megafauna.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• The females are famously protective of their young, and the species as a whole is widely regarded as the most dangerous of all the large African megafauna.
  — Travis Hall, Field & Stream, 12 Oct. 2023
• Millions of dollars pour into the state in large part because people want to see the nation's last wild charismatic megafauna.
  — Author: Sean McGuire, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Sep. 2017
• There was an upside, though: Room for new species meant that other megafauna came into existence.
  — Erin Blakemore, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• But where the planet had rocketed out of ice ages before and the megafauna had kept up, now an unprecedented actor stepped on the landscape.
  — Peter Brannen, The Atlantic, 22 June 2022
• In the Southern foodscape, barbecue and chess pie and fried chicken are akin to what in ecology are known as charismatic megafauna: the big species that get the glory.
  — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, 26 Nov. 2012
• If the heat, megafauna and freshwater bacteria managed to turn you off from the great outdoors, at least go see a movie this summer; the local theater might not be there next year.
  — Drew Goins, Washington Post, 20 June 2024

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024