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The Holocene Epoch, also called the post-Ice Age period, is the present epoch of today. It was preceded by the Pleistocene Epoch.
The Holocene began at the end of the last Ice Age (about 10,000 years ago). At that time the ice sheets began to melt, raising the sea level and forming elements of the modern Earth, such as Scandinavia and Hudson's Bay.
The first modern humans appear, with several numbers of animal species (many of them being megafaunal mammals) dying out on several continents that humans colonized. However, some megafaunal species would survive into the present day, such as lions and elephants.