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

During a time of no human predators, these megafauna had the evolutionary freedom and the natural abundance to grow gargantuan in size. The earth truly was once the land of the giants. Intrigued?

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Flinders University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a ...

The extinction of the megafauna—giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago—is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain ...