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Description
Size comparison of large animals that lived between 13 million years ago and 9,000 years ago.
Upper row: Teratornis merriami (large, predatory bird), Hagerman horse (zebra-like horse from North America), cave bear (large, cave-dwelling bear), Holmesina septentrionalis
(herbivore similiar to large armadillo), Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus (species of small, insular hippo), Wonambi naracoortensis (Australian, huge, python-like snake), Haast's eagle (large, moa-hunting eagle) and Stegodon ganesha (huge proboscid with long, straight tusks).
Middle row: Tasmanian tiger (carnivorous, wolf-like marsupial), Camelops hesternus (large, long-necked camel), Megalonyx jeffersoni (North American ground sloth), Genyornis newtoni (Australian scavenging bird related to waterfowl), Zaglossus hacketti (giant long-beaked echidna), Megatapirus augustus (large Chinese tapir), giant fossa (large, cave-dwelling predatory mammal of Madagscar), Stegomastodon mirificus (primitive proboscid from South America), Ornimegalonyx oteroi (flightless, long-legged owl), giant koala (lrger, more robust species of koala), giant Aye-aye (large, long-fingered lemur), Leptoptilos robustus (huge, flightless marabou stork from Flores island), Homotherium serum (hyne-like saber-toothed cat) and Megaladapis madagascariensis (gorilla-sized lemur).
Lower row: Imperial mammoth (giant, hairless mammoth), auroch (large bovid ancestral to modern cattle), short-faced bear (long-legged bear with massive jaws), Eremotherium eomigrans (giant ground sloth), Voay robustus (large, horned crocodile from Madagscar), dodo (heavy, flightless bird related to pidgeons), Neochoerus pinckneyi (large, North American capybara), elephant bird (huge ratite from Madagscar) and Ursus maritimus tyrannus (giant polar bear).

Description
Size comparison of large animals that lived between 13 million years ago and 9,000 years ago.
Upper row: Teratornis merriami (large, predatory bird), Hagerman horse (zebra-like horse from North America), cave bear (large, cave-dwelling bear), Holmesina septentrionalis
(herbivore similiar to large armadillo), Cyprus dwarf hippopotamus (species of small, insular hippo), Wonambi naracoortensis (Australian, huge, python-like snake), Haast's eagle (large, moa-hunting eagle) and Stegodon ganesha (huge proboscid with long, straight tusks).
Middle row: Tasmanian tiger (carnivorous, wolf-like marsupial), Camelops hesternus (large, long-necked camel), Megalonyx jeffersoni (North American ground sloth), Genyornis newtoni (Australian scavenging bird related to waterfowl), Zaglossus hacketti (giant long-beaked echidna), Megatapirus augustus (large Chinese tapir), giant fossa (large, cave-dwelling predatory mammal of Madagscar), Stegomastodon mirificus (primitive proboscid from South America), Ornimegalonyx oteroi (flightless, long-legged owl), giant koala (lrger, more robust species of koala), giant Aye-aye (large, long-fingered lemur), Leptoptilos robustus (huge, flightless marabou stork from Flores island), Homotherium serum (hyne-like saber-toothed cat) and Megaladapis madagascariensis (gorilla-sized lemur).
Lower row: Imperial mammoth (giant, hairless mammoth), auroch (large bovid ancestral to modern cattle), short-faced bear (long-legged bear with massive jaws), Eremotherium eomigrans (giant ground sloth), Voay robustus (large, horned crocodile from Madagscar), dodo (heavy, flightless bird related to pidgeons), Neochoerus pinckneyi (large, North American capybara), elephant bird (huge ratite from Madagscar) and Ursus maritimus tyrannus (giant polar bear).