New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird ...

These Pleistocene megafauna became extinct between 60,000 and 20,000 years ago. Hundreds of megafauna fossils have been discovered over the past decade. Scientists are unearthing growing evidence ...

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 ...

"It's a question that's been plaguing paleontology for a couple of hundred years," says Sam Arman, a paleontologist at Megafauna Central ... a larger role in the extinction event than a changing ...

What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric world? For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago.

He has been a regular contributor to National Geographic since 1998, writing on such topics as dinosaurs, particle physics, earthquakes, extraterrestrial life, megafauna extinction and the ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

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 ...