Prehistoric humans never threw spears at ... Another challenge to the Flannery model of Australian megafauna extinction is more mechanistic: How could people armed with only spears and fire ...

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 ...

What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric world ... about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals that usually weighed over 44kg.

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australia Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...

About 10,000 years ago, the climate began to warm, and most of these so-called megafauna went extinct ... to Europe and Asia and then on to Australia and the Americas. Along the way the species ...