The mystery of the role of people and climate in the fate of Australian megafauna might have been solved in a breakthrough study. 'Megafauna', giant beasts that once roamed the continent -- including ...

When people first arrived in what is now Queensland, they would have found the land inhabited by massive animals including goannas six metres long and kangaroos twice as tall as a human. We have ...

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. Subscribe to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Complex ecological network models have uncovered a previously ...

This documentary traces the full evolutionary timeline of prehistoric creatures that shaped Australia long before humans. It explores how dinosaurs and megafauna developed in extreme isolation, ...

Jon Woodhead receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Kale Sniderman receives funding from the Australian Research Council Liz Reed receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

The mysterious Australian megafauna extinction may have been caused other factors such as climate change and not physical characteristics, a new study has found. Giant animals, including wombat-like ...

The fossilised bone of Procoptodon browneorum, a now-extinct giant kangaroo, discovered at Mammoth Cave, WA. Credit: Anna Gillespie/Supplied A decades-old theory that First Nations peoples hunted ...

This story appears in the October 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. You will find the Naracoorte Caves in the pastoral wine country of South Australia, four hours from Adelaide on lonely ...

Riesenameisenigel, Kurznasenkängurus, Diprotodontidae und ein Beutelwolf gehören zu den Fossilien ausgestorbener Tiere, die in der Mammoth Cave im Südwesten von Western Australia gefunden wurden.

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 ...