An ancient giant kangaroo bone from Australia's Mammoth Cave has long been cited as evidence that Indigenous Australians ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils.

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

Every creature that has disappeared leaves behind more than just a memory they leave lessons about ecosystems, extinction ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial wombats, flightless birds, and short-faced giant kangaroos known as ...

Australia is known for its unusual animal life, from koalas to kangaroos. But once upon a time, the Australian landscape had even weirder fauna, like Palorchestes azael, a marsupial with immense claws ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems and ...

It's implausible that any megafauna survived the sudden onset of the Ice Age, even in the Southern Hemisphere. If any did, it's a small part of the story. The 'scientists' get their bogus carbon ...

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