Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

This documentary traces the full evolutionary timeline of prehistoric creatures that shaped Australia long before humans. It explores how dinosaurs and megafauna developed in extreme isolation, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. At roughly the length of a small school bus, anacondas are famously ...

There has been a long-standing controversy about whether or not the first people to arrive in Australia more than 60,000 years ago were responsible for, or contributed through hunting to, the ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna, which are needed to inform conservation strategies. Lead authors Ph.D. student Michelle ...

This study provides an overview of “barracuda” (sphyraenid teleost) remains recovered from the Cenozoic strata of Japan, and explores their potential linkages to global climatic events. Fossil ...

Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for their meat, ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...