chocolate-colored river once bristling with crocodiles, we stopped for the night at a forestry station, where I had a brush with the sole surviving member of the Malagasy megafauna—the Nile ...

Who or what snuffed out the mammoths and other megafauna 13,000 years ago? It takes a certain kind of person to take on this question as his or her life's work. You have to be itching to know the ...

It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed. However, some recent studies have obtained fossil evidence that challenges this consensus. In ...

A long, long time ago, marsupials the size of small trucks, 2-meter-tall "thunder birds" and 5-meter-long venomous lizards roamed Australia. These animals—and more—were Australia's megafauna.

Carbon-dating teeth suggests two large mammal species roamed northeastern Brazil 3,500 years ago Geologist Fábio Faria and colleagues carbon-dated eight fragments of megafauna teeth of different ...