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Description
Size comparison of large animals that lived between 4,9 million years ago and 8,000 years ago.
Upper row: American mastodon (hairy proboscidean from North America), cave hyena (large, Eurasian hyena), Gigantopithecus blacki (a huge ape from Far East), giant bison (similiar to American bison, but larger and with longer horns), Metridiochoerus (giant, four-tusked warthog), marsupial lion (cat-like, carnivorous marsupial), Mylodon darwini (cave-dwelling ground sloth), Colossochelys atlas (the largest turtle to have ever lived), Sicilian dwarf elephant (small, insular species related to Asian elephant) and giant short-faced kangaroo (name explains everything).
Middle row: Megalania (giant monitor liazard), Smildon fatalis (sabre-toothed cat), Toxodon platensis (massive herbivore from South America), giant beaver (very large rodent from North America), Palorchestes azael (tapir-like marsupial), Elasmotherium sibiricum (elephant-sized rhino from Siberia) and Macrauchenia patagonica (South Amarican ungulate mammal looking like a llama with a short trunk).
Lower row: woolly mammoth (no despription needed), Megatherium americanum (giant ground sloth), Diprotodon (giant, hippo-like wombat), Irish elk (giant deer with extremely large antlers), cave lion (giant lion from Northern Hemisphere), Glyptodon (giant armadillo), Titanis walleri (flightles carnivorous bird with clawed hands instead of wings), Doedicurus clavicaudatus (even larger armadillo with spiky club on a tip of it's tail), dire wolf (species of large wolf), woolly rhinoceros (Eurasian rhinoceros with fur) and giant moa (ratite from New Zealand).

Description
Size comparison of large animals that lived between 4,9 million years ago and 8,000 years ago.
Upper row: American mastodon (hairy proboscidean from North America), cave hyena (large, Eurasian hyena), Gigantopithecus blacki (a huge ape from Far East), giant bison (similiar to American bison, but larger and with longer horns), Metridiochoerus (giant, four-tusked warthog), marsupial lion (cat-like, carnivorous marsupial), Mylodon darwini (cave-dwelling ground sloth), Colossochelys atlas (the largest turtle to have ever lived), Sicilian dwarf elephant (small, insular species related to Asian elephant) and giant short-faced kangaroo (name explains everything).
Middle row: Megalania (giant monitor liazard), Smildon fatalis (sabre-toothed cat), Toxodon platensis (massive herbivore from South America), giant beaver (very large rodent from North America), Palorchestes azael (tapir-like marsupial), Elasmotherium sibiricum (elephant-sized rhino from Siberia) and Macrauchenia patagonica (South Amarican ungulate mammal looking like a llama with a short trunk).
Lower row: woolly mammoth (no despription needed), Megatherium americanum (giant ground sloth), Diprotodon (giant, hippo-like wombat), Irish elk (giant deer with extremely large antlers), cave lion (giant lion from Northern Hemisphere), Glyptodon (giant armadillo), Titanis walleri (flightles carnivorous bird with clawed hands instead of wings), Doedicurus clavicaudatus (even larger armadillo with spiky club on a tip of it's tail), dire wolf (species of large wolf), woolly rhinoceros (Eurasian rhinoceros with fur) and giant moa (ratite from New Zealand).