"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 ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.

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 plants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of what Owen’s giant echidna may have looked like. The now extinct megafauna was up to three feet-long. In the ...

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 ...

A new study in PNAS finds that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago continues to impact predator-prey dynamics, especially in the Americas. Researchers analyzed 389 ...

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Meet some of Australia's larger-than-life ancient giants in this animated series about megafauna, narrated by comedian Sammy J.

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