The extinction of the megafauna—giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago—is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

However, this is where much of the agreement ends. There are three main theories about how the megafauna extinction occurred. One theory is that climate change is to blame, another that humans ...

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

Did the impact cause the dramatic extinction of some 35 types of large animals, or megafauna, in North America, also dated roughly to this period? Or should we blame these extinctions on the ...

What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric world? For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago.

They likely had little need to travel to find food. The extinction of Australia's megafauna - long-vanished beasts such the "marsupial lion" Thylacoleo and the three-tonne Diprotodon - has long ...

Earlier this year, to breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences claimed to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism ...

A prominent theory explaining the extinction of megafauna (large animals such as mastodons, sabertooth cats, mammoths, American lions, and the now topical dire wolves) is geoscientist Paul Martin ...

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 ...

To breathless media coverage, a company called Colossal Biosciences now claims to have produced three genetically engineered pups of the long-extinct dire wolf. Scientific criticism followed fast. The ...