It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed. For a long time, the overall consensus has been that mammalian megafauna – giant mammals that roamed the ...

A team of anthropologists and evolutionary biologists affiliated with several academic institutions in the U.S., working with ...

A long, long time ago, marsupials the size of small trucks, 2-meter-tall "thunder birds" and 5-meter-long venomous lizards roamed Australia. These animals—and more—were Australia's megafauna.

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

Blue whale births remain unseen because they occur in winter, when researchers typically aren't observing them. By the time ...

Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in ...

Who or what snuffed out the mammoths and other megafauna 13,000 years ago? It takes a certain kind of person to take on this question as his or her life's work. You have to be itching to know the ...

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals ...

They were the ancient Australian megafauna—huge animals that roamed the continent during the Pleistocene epoch. In boneyards across the continent, scientists have found the fossils of a giant ...

Australia was once home to a group of extraordinary animals known as Megafauna. What became of them has been debated for over a century, but now a team of scientists are re-opening this paleolithic ...

It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed. However, some recent studies have obtained fossil evidence that challenges this consensus. In ...