Megafauna are mammals weighing over 40 kilograms. At the end of the last Ice Age, and most intensively during the Younger Dryas, the following numbers of genera of mammalian megafauna went extinct:
- In Subsaharan Africa, 8 of 50 (16%)
- In Asia, 24 of 46 (52%)
- In Europe, 23 of 39 (59%)
- In Australasia, 19 of 27 (71%)
- In North America, 45 of 61 (74%)
- In South America, 58 of 71 (82%)
Source wikipedia.
