Experts have tried to understand for several decades how long multiple extinct species inhabited the Earth. This helps researchers understand how Earth has changed across several periods.

Since the last major ice age, populations of large animals have dwindled. These declines have directly affected climate ...

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 ...

After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals ...

The animals’ extinction might not have happened ... Brazilian researchers used to adopt the North American view that megafauna were wiped out by overhunting. “Following that dominant view ...

And absence of other megafauna in kill sites doesn't mean they ... view that people could have been so active as to hunt every animal of any body size, in every context, in every possible ...

As unbelievable as it may seem, woolly mammoths are potentially returning to our planet. According to an article from The ...

The BC Megafauna Project looks at ice age animals found in British Columbia. Our aim is to find and document as many of them as possible, from both public and private collections. We want to know when ...

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 ...