The extinction of the megafauna—giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago—is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain ...

New fossil studies reveal that ancient predators like saber-toothed cats vanished rapidly after their primary prey species ...

Ambitious projects aim to put dire wolves, woolly mammoths and passenger pigeons back into our ecosystems. But with so many ...

His research has centered on the extinctions of Pleistocene megafauna, like the aforementioned mammoths and sloths. But in a recent paper, he and other researchers went back even further — 65 ...

A team of scientists have now successfully established markers for three species of extinct Australian megafauna, opening the way for research which could help us understand how a series of ...

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species, including nearly two dozen kinds of kangaroos. Two theories suggest why.

As science writer Sharon Levy’s book on megafauna notes, the last 50,000 years saw about 90 genera of large mammals go extinct, amounting to over 70% of America’s largest species and over 90% ...

And Zygomaturus trilobus, a wombat the size of a hippo. They’re all extinct now, and researchers are trying to figure out why. Host Flora Lichtman talks with researcher Carli Peters about ZooMS, a ...

Published: January 9, 2025 2:02pm EST The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a topic of fierce debate.