There is great debate as to why we no longer have the Pleistocene megafauna with us today. Some argue that the interglacial we are currently in the middle of is no different from previous interglacial ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...

"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organization devoted to environmental monitoring. The demise ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cyprus was home to only these two species of megafauna during the Late Pleistocene. The dwarf elephant was roughly 1,000 pounds, ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems and ...

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Australia is known for its unusual animal life, from koalas to kangaroos. But once upon a time, the Australian landscape had even weirder fauna, like Palorchestes azael, a marsupial with immense claws ...

The Quaternary period, spanning the past 2.6 million years, was marked by dramatic climatic oscillations that shaped the evolutionary trajectories of large vertebrates collectively known as megafauna.

Meet some of Australia's larger-than-life ancient giants in this animated series about megafauna, narrated by comedian Sammy ...