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 ...

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 ...

At the end of the Pleistocene epoch, around 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, many “megafauna” species went ... alongside large animals like elephants, crocodiles and ostriches.

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 ...

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 ...