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 ...

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 ...

Massive tunnels have been discovered in South America, but what animal made them? Learn about the tunnels created by ...

Research from Curtin University has found that pre-historic climate change does not explain the extinction of megafauna in North America at the end of the last Ice Age. The research, published today ...

Feb. 16 (UPI) --For years, scientists have waffled on what exactly drove North America's megafauna to extinction, debating whether the blame belonged to overhunting, climate change or both. In a new ...

For over a century and a half researchers have debated whether humans or climate change killed off Australia’s megafuana. A new paper in Science argues with new evidence that Australia’s giant ...

Australia's giant prehistoric animals, including three-meter (10-foot) -tall kangaroos, were likely wiped out by aboriginal settlers, not climate change, a researcher said Tuesday. The question of ...

Depictions of ancient humans in both scientific and popular culture contexts picture them throwing spears at the thick hides of mammoths. A new study from archaeologists at UC Berkeley suggests that ...

Jabiru birds fly past a herd of Columbian Mammoths as they make their way across a river delta. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America's largest ...

Research has found that pre-historic climate change does not explain the extinction of megafauna in North America at the end of the last Ice Age. Research from Curtin University has found that ...