Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...
New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.
Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...
Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...
Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...
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.
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An Unexpectedly Large Vulture Soared Over South America 13,000 Years Ago
A bone fragment led Uruguayan paleontologists to reconstruct the existence of a colossal vulture, larger than the Andean ...
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Bear-Sized Snow Sloths? Meet Megalonyx, The Ice Age Giants That Lived Until 13,000 Years Ago
An Ice Age giant was tumbling around North America during the Late Pleistocene. About the size of a bear, it was actually a ...
In a new study, University of New South Wales Professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined the fossilized tibia (lower ...
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