An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna, which are needed to ...

A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular ...

Archaeological evidence shows that the Clovis people, with their iconic spear points, spread widely across much of North America near the end of the last ice age.

Those massive animals we know and love, like polar bears, blue whales, and ostriches, may be running out of time on Earth and our insatiable appetite for meat may be part of the problem. A fresh look ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's a contentious question. Why did the giant kangaroos and rhino-sized wombats that once roamed Australia die out? Scientists agree ...

Jabiru birds fly past a herd of Columbian Mammoths as they make their way across a river delta. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America's largest ...

Earth once hosted many massive creatures called megafauna; they are technically defined as animals with mature body weights that exceed 44 kilograms (97 pounds). Megaherbivores, on the other hand, are ...

Today’s land animals are a bunch of runts compared with creatures from the not-too-distant past. Beasts as big as elephants, gorillas and bears were once much more common around the world. Then, ...

This guest post is from Dr. Diva Amon (on Twitter @DivaAmon). Dr. Amon is marine biologist specialising in deep-sea biology, working on a range of environments, from abyssal plains to chemosynthetic ...

Researchers claim there is now compelling evidence humans were responsible for the demise of Australia's megafauna. More than 40,000 years ago, the Australian continent was a menagerie of curious ...