Researchers found that her diet primarily consisted of meat from megafauna, the largest animals in an ecosystem, particularly ...

Scientists have found proof that the early humans who lived in North America during the last Ice Age mainly hunted and ate ...

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.

South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, ...

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 ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Australia was once home to a group of extraordinary animals known as Megafauna. What became of them ...

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 ...

The BC Megafauna Project looks at ice age animals found in British Columbia. Our aim is to find and document as many of them as possible, from both public and private collections. We want to know when ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about their survival and resilience to climate change, and the final extinction of ...