The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna ...

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...

Introduction -- Crises in the history of life -- The Ice Age and the megafauna -- Cold case : the search for the Ice Age killer -- Northern Eurasia : woolly rhinos, cave bears, and giant deer -- North ...

Mammoths, dire wolves and saber-toothed cats. Oh my, what a fascinating walk through Pleistocene history is provided by a relatively new Southern Nevada state park. Ice Age Fossils State Park opened ...

Archaeologists have shed light on how prehistoric humans in North America hunted megafauna, such as mammoths. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, proposes that these hunters used ...