Australian scientists have concluded that human hunting caused the extinction of the ancient giant animals – or megafauna - that roamed the continent and vanished about 40,000 years ago. Jonathan ...

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.

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 29 (UPI) --Some 50,000 years ago, Australia featured a giant flightless bird called the Genyornis newtoni. It stood seven feet tall and weighed upwards of 500 pounds. But like the ...

A recent study from Aarhus University's ECONOVO Center concludes that human hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of megafauna extinctions over the last 50,000 years. The loss of ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The discovery of the tools was the first direct proof of interaction between Ice Age humans and megafauna of the Pleistocene Era in the Basin of Mexico. Recently, researchers uncovered the remains of ...

Around 12,300 years ago, Ice Age giants such as saber-toothed cats and bears weighing a tonne were suddenly killed off. What caused this rapid extinction of megafauna has long been debated, but ...

The La Brea Tar Pits, in Los Angeles, is the world’s only urban Ice Age excavation site, and scientists have been working there for more than a century to extract fossils from the jammy seeps. The ...

For the overkill hypothesis to hold true, prehistoric humans must have killed off the megafauna very rapidly - within 1,000 years of arriving in a region. If the extinction happened more slowly than ...