North America
Pleistocene fauna in North America included giant sloths; short faced bears; several species of tapirs; peccaries (Including the long nosed and flat-headed peccaries); the American lion; giant condors; Miracinonyx ("American cheetahs", not true cheetahs); saber-toothed cats like Smilodon and the scimitar cat, Homotherium; dire wolves; saiga; camelids such as two species of now extinct llamas and Camelops; at least two species of bison; stag-moose; the shrub-ox and Harlan's muskox; horses; mammoths and mastodons; and giant beavers as well as birds like teratorns and giant tortoises. The nine-foot sabertooth salmon lived at the time as well. In contrast, today the largest North American land animal is the American bison.
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