Megafauna
Large-bodied animals such as the Columbian mammoth, mastodon and giant ground sloth. Many of the Pleistocene's megafauna went extinct at the end of the last Ice Age.
Megafauna means large-bodied animals — conventionally those over about 45 kilograms (100 pounds) as adults. The Pleistocene Ice Age megafauna of South Carolina included the Columbian mammoth, mastodon, giant ground sloth and glyptodonts.
Many went extinct near the end of the last Ice Age, roughly 11,700 years ago. Their teeth and bones are among the Ice Age fossils recovered from Lowcountry rivers.