What are the most famous ice age animals where you live?

[Ad_Quid_Orator]

I'm originally from the USA and some ice age animals that most people knew about were mammoths, saber tooths, ground sloths and dire wolves. Now, all of these animals lived in the US during the last ice age so I kind of assumed that on a given continent, the most famous ice age animals would be the ones that used to live on that continent. However, when I moved to Australia, I was surprised by how few people knew about the creatures that lived here up until ~40,000 years ago. Because there were some pretty amazing creatures like the giant wombat diprotodon, the short-faced kangaroo, the marsupial lion and the giant ripper lizard. Instead, more people are familiar with mammoths and saber tooths down under. So are the most famous ice age animals where you reside also the ones that lived in your corner of the world?

[Kori1236]

Wooly mammoths, American mastidons, short faced bears, American lion, Jefferson’s ground sloth, bison antiquus, Caribou, Muskox and ice age horses.


We also evidently had both the wooly mammoth and the Columbian mammoth.

[FreyaRed]

Region where I'm living was covered with kilometer thick ice shield like Greenland now in time of last ice age. No animals lived here. Before it was a warm and flat sea over a long period of time.

[AviatorTom]

We have lots of birds, which are the only remaining dinosaurs.

[purplepoppy]

Mammoths seem to be the most common one found here. A lot of people don't know they only went extinct around 1650bc