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Sabre Toothed Tiger
This fearsome carnivore (Smilodon) preyed upon the many mammals flourishing in the Pliocene and Pleistocene.
It killed by stabbing its victims, in the cold prairies of USA, with its upper canine teeth. In Europe, an extinct cave lion features often in cave paintings.
Mammoth
Herds of woolly mammoth (Elephas Primigenius) roamed the Thames valley which 80,000 years ago resembled the steppes and tundra of northern Russia today.
Several complete mammoths have been excavated from frozen mud in Siberia. The largest (Mammuthus Imperator), from USA, stood 14 feet at the shoulder.
Auroch
A very large longhorned bull-like creature, which has been named an auroch (Bos Primigenius) survived
long enough in Europe to feature on cave paintings 35,000 years ago.
It roamed cold, open prairies with large herds of royal bison (with six-foot horns), and wild horses.
Uintatherium
Some mammals like the Titanotheres became huge and grotesque in the early Tertiary (about 50 million years ago), with ugly knobs adorning their thick skulls, and some like Uintatherium with tusky teeth merging from their jaws.
Baluchitherium
The largest land mammal of them all was Baluchitherium from the Oligocene of Asia (about 30 million years ago). It was about the size of a double-decker bus, 25 feet from nose to tail and about 18 feet tall.
Giant Sloth
Enormous grounddwelling vegetarian sloths (Megatherium) developed during the Cenozoic era. These creatures provided ready meat for carnivores like Smilodon. In South America they reached 20 feet
in length.