In the world dominated by the ice age, the animal face also evolved to adapt to the ice age, so some more exotic animals appeared. So what animals were there during the glaciation period? Let's take a rough list.
1. Cave lion
The Panthera leo spelaea lived between 300,000 and 10,000 years ago and is widely distributed in the steppes of northern and central Eurasia – desert areas. The cave lion has thick limbs, a total length of 2.7 meters, a tail length of 1.2 meters, and a weight of 250 kilograms. At the end of the Pleistocene, the large European wild horse, which was its main food, went extinct and lost its food, and the cave lion went extinct.
The classification location of the cave lion
Eudeochus subclass
Carnivora
Suborder Cleft-footed
Felidae
Leopard subfamily
Leopard genus
2. Blade tooth tiger
The Smilodon is a large cat that appeared in the late Pliocene. They have very exaggerated and sharp "dagger teeth", are huge, and have a late extinction, mainly found in the United States, and are often regarded as the most "authentic" and "standard" saber-toothed cats. Although the blade-toothed tiger is widely known in the country, it is often confused with the short-sword saber-toothed tiger (Machairodus).
The classification position of the bladed tiger
Saber-toothed tiger subfamily
Genus Lycaenidae
3
Dire wolves
Dire wolves were very common in North and South America during the Pleistocene. Dire wolves are larger than modern wolves, with stronger bodies, but shorter, averaging about 2 meters long, weighing 79 kilograms, and their limbs are thinner and shorter, more hyena-like. Dire wolves have a shorter facial head and lower brain volume. Wolves inhabit a wide range of environments. It wasn't until 10,000 years ago that most large mammals began to disappear, and dire wolves became extinct because they had lost their main food.
Classification location of dire wolves
Canidae
Subfamily Canines
Canis
4. Short-faced bear
The giant short-faced bear (Arctodus simus), which lived on the American continent 2 million years ago, is a terrifying predator. Since their main prey is the American bison and the bighorn bison, they are sometimes referred to as "bull-eating bears". They weigh 1600 to 1700 kg and can reach a height of 4.9 meters when standing.
The classification location of the short-faced bear
Ursidae
Subfamily Spectacle bears
Genus Brachycephalus
5. Cave bear
The Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a giant bear that lived in northern Pleistocene Eurasia and became extinct during the Ice Age about 10,000 years ago. Cave bears and giant short-faced bears are the two great bears of the Pleistocene. Male cave bears are huge, weighing up to 1134 kilograms. Cave bears may be mostly herbivores, but some may be omnivores, and some may be ferocious carnivores.
The classification location of the cave bear
Subfamily Ursa
Bear genus
6. Plate tooth rhinoceros
Elasmotherium has a shoulder height of about 3.5 meters, a body length of more than 8 meters, and a maximum weight of more than 8 tons. There are horns up to 2 meters long on the forehead. The plate-toothed rhinoceros lived in Pleistocene Eastern Europe and East Asia, Central Asia, and North Asia. It is about 1.2 times larger than the woolly rhinoceros.
Classification location of plate-toothed rhinoceros
Perissodactyla
suborder
Rhinoceros superfamily
Rhinoceros
Plate-toothed rhinoceros
7. Woolly rhinoceros
The Coelodonta antiquitatis is 5.5 meters long, about 3.2 meters high at the shoulders and weighs 7 tons. It is so named because of the thick hair all over the body. The rhinoceros has two flat horns at the end of its nose, which can push the snow out to graze. Fur and fat are thicker and used to stay warm in cold environments. Found in northern Eurasia, the woolly rhinoceros became extinct at the end of the ice age 10,000 years ago. The woolly rhino was once hunted by Paleolithic humans. The closest surviving rhinoceros to the woolly rhinoceros is the Sumatran rhinoceros in Southeast Asia, but it is extremely rare.
Classification position of the woolly rhinoceros
Phi Phi Rhinoceros
8. Bighorn deer
The Irish Megaloceros are the most recent deer in deer history, mainly from Ireland to Lake Baikal, and became extinct 7700 years ago. The shoulder height of the bighorn deer can reach 2.5 meters, the individual is more than 3 meters tall, and the horns on the head of the male deer are huge, and the largest two horns are more than 3 meters wide. The big horns of the bighorn deer were once thought to be the cause of their extinction, because the horns grew so large that it made it very difficult for them to raise their heads.
The classification location of the bighorn deer
Even-hoofed order
Ruminant suborder
Cervidae
Bighorn deer genus
9. Mammoth
The mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), often referred to as the mammoth, is a giant proboscis that adapts to cold climates. Once one of the largest elephants in the world. Mammoths are tall and strong, up to 5 meters long, about 3 meters high, and the incisors are about 1.5 meters long, while the male mammoths have an average tusk length of 2.5 meters, and some can approach or even exceed 3 meters. It is covered with gold, reddish brown, gray-brown fine long hair, the skin is very thick, with a very thick fat layer, up to 9 cm thick. Viewed from the side, its shoulders are the highest point of the body, and its image resembles that of a hunchbacked old man. Mammoths became almost entirely extinct at the end of the Pleistocene, and the last Siberian mammoths became extinct around 2000 BC, coinciding with the establishment of the pyramids in Egypt.
Classification location of mammoths
Proboscis
Truth family
Mammoth genus
10. The sculpted tooth beast
Glyptodon is a peculiar toothless order, a giant herbivorous mammal in the shape of an armadillo, living in South America during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. It survived until the late Pleistocene (about 30,000–8,500 years ago). The griffin is known as the "ironclad warrior" among mammals, with a mature griffon body of about 4 meters and a back of up to 2.5 meters. The hard armor on their bodies is often larger than two meters in diameter, protecting their bodies. The griffin also has a tubular tail with a ring-shaped bone for protection.
Classification location of the glyptodont
Poor tooth order
There is a suborder A
Carodontidae
Genus Triceratops
11. Earth sloth
Megatherium is an extinct paleoodont named after its close relatives to sloths and their lives on the ground. It lived in Pleistocene Central and South America and was one of the few animals that successfully invaded North America from South America. The earth sloth is nearly six meters, up to four tons (almost the weight of an African elephant). Walk on two feet with claws on your toes. Some scientists believe that the ground sloth may sometimes "open the meat" and snatch prey from the mouths of other carnivores. At the end of the Pleistocene the land sloth was hit hard and became extinct.
Classification position of the earth sloth
Phi Mao suborder
Sloth superfamily
Land sloths
Earth sloth genus