Elephants (megaherbivores) in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Africa. (Courtesy of Juan Cantalapiedra via Courthouse News) (CN) — Africa is known for its megafauna. Its massive, iconic creatures, ...

Earth once hosted many massive creatures called megafauna; they are technically defined as animals with mature body weights that exceed 44 kilograms (97 pounds). Megaherbivores, on the other hand, are ...

Fossil remains of the extinct Marsupial Lion Thylacoleo at Victoria Fossil Cave in Naracoorte Caves. Complex ecological network models have uncovered a previously unrecognised process contributing to ...

A recent excavation in Texas yielded some “colossal creatures,” according to local officials – and archaeologists are hopeful more will be uncovered soon. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT ...

Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Large introduced herbivores such as feral horses and camels are often seen as “invasive” species which damage native plants. My ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

Griffith University reseracher Associate Professor Julien Louys retrieves a fossil from the underwater Gouldens cave site in Mt Gambier, South Australia. Cave diving is a recreation and emergency ...

A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have survived as recently as 20,000 years ago – long after large-bodied megafauna on ...

Different combinations of human hunting and climate change caused Australia's famed 'giant' species to go extinct, and now it turns out that for some species, changing food availability made things ...

Jon Woodhead receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Kale Sniderman receives funding from the Australian Research Council Liz Reed receives funding from the Australian Research Council.

Divers plunging into Mexico's submerged Sac Actun cave system in 2007 stumbled upon a hidden world of Ice Age fossils, ...