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. Subscribe to ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems and ...

Some extinct mammals from Australia's Mammoth Cave included (from left) a giant long-nosed echidna, a short-faced kangaroo, a wombat-like marsupial and a Tasmanian thylacine. - Peter Schouten Recent ...

Australia was once home to a group of extraordinary animals known as Megafauna. What became of them has been debated for over a century, but now a team of scientists are re-opening this Palaeolithic ...

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 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 ...

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