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 ...

The extinction of the megafauna—giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago—is a topic of ...

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.

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?

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds ...

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 ...

Prehistoric kangaroos in southern Australia had a more general diet than previously assumed, giving rise to new ideas about ...

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 ...