Megafauna have always existed in Australia. But around 2.5 million years ago, they became enormous. The largest of these animals existed during a period of time known as the Pleistocene epoch.

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 ...

Around 50,000 years ago, North America was home to a diverse array of megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering ...

And absence of other megafauna in kill sites doesn't mean ... two million years only to succumb to the one that closed the Pleistocene. The dearth of evidence doesn't deter researchers working ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal ... a paleontologist at Megafauna Central, a natural history museum in Australia Now, in research published in ...

Bustos, J. Jakeway, S.W. Manning, and M.R. Bennett. 2018. Use of magnetometry for detecting and documenting multi-species Pleistocene megafauna tracks at White Sands National Monument, New Mexico, USA ...

Megafauna is a loose term referring to all the species present in the Pleistocene of Australia (2.6 million to 12,000 years ago) which haven’t survived until today. Two features unite them ...

Researchers identified the fossil as Glyptodon reticulatus, a megafauna species from the Late Pleistocene epoch.

This is a drawing of the Pleistocene landscape. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the ...