New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

Rochelle Lawrence/Queensland MuseumResearchers uncovered at least 13 species of extinct megafauna that once roamed in prehistoric Australia. Between 40,000 and 60,000 years ago, the land that we ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a spectacular cave in southern Brazil. When he reaches the cave’s opening, Alano is ...

It’s an ecological experiment that’s rooted in the theory of Pleistocene rewilding, which posits that restoring extinct megafauna could revive degraded ecosystems. Skeptics, however ...

Madagascar is renowned for its unique biodiversity, including its extinct megafauna, which played a crucial role in shaping the island's ecosystems. Recent research has focused on understanding ...

"It's a question that's been plaguing paleontology for a couple of hundred years," says Sam Arman, a paleontologist at Megafauna Central ... a larger role in the extinction event than a changing ...

What comes to mind when you think of the prehistoric world? For many, it is dinosaurs, the fierce and powerful stars of the Mesozoic era, which spanned from about 251 to 66 million years ago.

New research has identified the extent to which human colonisation and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird ...

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago ... a paleontologist at Megafauna Central, a natural history museum in Australia Now, in research published in Science, Arman and his colleagues ...