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, ...

This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.The first wave of the “Sixth Extinction” outlined in ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

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 ...

Ancient clues, in the shape of fossils and archaeological evidence of varying quality scattered across Australia, have formed the basis of several hypotheses about the fate of megafauna that vanished ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Humans haven’t always been great to nature. But at least our ancestors may not have killed off island megafauna in the distant past, so that’s something. New research, published in the Proceedings of ...