Roughly 50,000 years ago, a kangaroo unlike any alive today lived in the mountain rainforests of New Guinea.

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 plants ...

"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organization devoted to environmental monitoring. The demise ...

During the Late Pleistocene, a significant number of megafauna species, broadly defined as animals exceeding 44 kg, ...

Large kangaroos today roam long distances across the outback, often surviving droughts by moving in mobs to find new food when pickings are slim. But not all kangaroos have been this way. In new ...

The caves, which are in New South Wales, have played an enormous role in Australian palaeontology and remain an active ...

Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks to collagen peptide markers. These peptides can help researchers distinguish different animal genera and perhaps ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of what Owen's giant echidna may have looked like. The now extinct megafauna was up to three feet-long. In the ...