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 ...

Archaeologists in Texas recently discovered prehistoric megafauna bones, including a giant ground sloth, during a highway project in Lubbock, according to officials. Fox News Media Fox Business ...

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.

Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years Ago Carbon dating of teeth fragments found in Brazil reveals that some species persisted for thousands of years longer than thought.

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 ...

Bison were among the species of megafauna living in Southern California that rapidly went extinct about 13,000 years ago, and wildfires were likely a cause. Illustration by Cullen Townsend More ...

The remains belonged to megafauna, which are large mammals. Chris Ringstaff, a project planner with TxDOT’s environmental affairs division, said that megafauna bones “[are] not unusual in the ...

For a long time, everybody was talking about how megafauna went extinct 11,000 years ago, and humans got to the Americas 13,000 years ago. So the Overkill Hypothesis makes sense from this perspective.