Spores from a fungi found in megafauna poop can tell us when enormous creatures went extinct. By Laura Baisas. Published Apr 26, 2023 12:00 PM EDT ...

To translate: Hippos sometimes poop so much that all the fish choke to death. ... bison, and other megafauna. It’s not a babbling brook of clear water. It’s a world of dead bodies, ...

New evidence involving the ancient poop of some of the huge and astonishing creatures that once roamed Australia indicates the primary cause of their extinction around 45,000 years ago was likely a ..

About 5,000 years later, megafauna began to live in the area again – likely at lower numbers – before another wave of extinction about 11,000 years ago reduced them almost to zero.

Interestingly, megafauna colonized the area again about 5,000 years later, although their population numbers never reached their previous levels of abundance. Then abruptly, about 11,000 years ago ...

Giant ancient animals known as megafauna, originally thought to have gone extinct due to the arrival of human beings, have now been found to have perished for other reasons.

Big animals of the ocean go about their days mostly hidden from view. Scientists know these marine megafauna—such as whales, sharks, seals, turtles and birds—travel vast distances to feed and ...

Now, other megafauna fossil finds from South America appear to be even younger: They date from around 3,500 years ago, researchers report in the Feb. 15 Journal of South American Earth Sciences.