Is North America the only place where Late Pleistocene extinctions occurred?
North America is not the only continent which experienced an extinction of this kind near the end of the Pleistocene. In South America most of the species of medium to large mammals also went extinct approximately 11,000 years ago. In Australia a major extinction also occurred. The timing of this extinction is much more poorly known; however, it appears to date to between 40,000 and 20,000 years ago. Europe, Asia, and Africa also experienced some extinction toward the end of the Pleistocene. However, on all of these continents the extinction was less severe (fewer species involved). A closer look at extinction from overuse Late Pleistocene extinctions. In late Pleistocene, during the last 50,000 years, there were mass extinction events in many different parts of the world, involving at least 200 genera. But this was different from previous episodes of mass extinction: 1. It was much more selective, involving mainly the megafauna: the large herbivores (mammoths, mastodons, huge ground s
