There has been a long-standing debate about whether or not the first people to arrive in Australia were responsible for the ...

"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organization devoted to environmental monitoring. The demise ...

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 ...

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...

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 ...

Scientists have collected ancient RNA from mammoth samples up to 52,000 years old. Learn how they can use that RNA to indicate what happened to the mammoth as it took its last breaths.

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 ...

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 topic of ...

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 ...

Goetze: A time-worn statement regarding things being "here today and gone tomorrow” proves true in our everyday lives as well ...

Preface : Lost in near time -- Big -- "This sudden dying out" -- The world before us -- The hominin diaspora -- Explaining near time extinctions : first attempts -- Paul Martin and the planet of doom ...

Long before global warming was the biggest environmental issue, the planet was in the opposite kind of funk — an ice age lasting around 2.6 million years. During this time, starting about 700,000 ...