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 ...

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.

A growing number of scientists maintain that our current geological epoch should be classified as the Anthropocene, which speaks bluntly to humanity’s impact on the global environment. Yeo chose not ...

Sophie Yeo’s splendid book Nature’s Ghosts: The world we lost and how to bring it back has a curious omission: the term ‘Anthropocene’. A growing number of scientists maintain that our current ...