A new study in PNAS finds that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago continues to impact predator-prey dynamics, especially in the Americas. Researchers analyzed 389 ...

Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks to collagen peptide markers. These peptides can help researchers distinguish different animal genera and perhaps ...

"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organization devoted to environmental monitoring. The demise ...

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.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Colossal Biosciences is now valued at over $10 billion and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of what Owen’s giant echidna may have looked like. The now extinct megafauna was up to three feet-long. In the ...

Australia is known for its unusual animal life, from koalas to kangaroos. But once upon a time, the Australian landscape had even weirder fauna, like Palorchestes azael, a marsupial with immense claws ...

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 plants ...

Zygomaturus trilobus - a marsupial with no modern day comparisons that probably lived in the wetter areas of Australia, feeding on clumps of reeds and sedges it shovelled up with ...

It's implausible that any megafauna survived the sudden onset of the Ice Age, even in the Southern Hemisphere. If any did, it's a small part of the story. The 'scientists' get their bogus carbon ...

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