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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The three people I spoke to about the so-called megafaunal extinctions possess this sort of edgy sangfroid. They also stand in three decidedly different camps regarding why America's rich ...

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

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 ...

The Australian megafauna dominated their ecosystems—and then were gone in an extinction spasm that swept away nearly every animal that weighed a hundred pounds or more. What, exactly ...

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.

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 ...

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less mobile, which they believe, along with a change in climate, led to their ...

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 ...

“These results also help us understand megafaunal extinctions at the end of the last Ice Age, indicating humans may have played a more important role than is sometimes thought,” said Ben ...