Ancient collagen preserved in the bones of extinct Australian mammals is revealing their evolutionary relationships, leading to some surprises.

When the first humans reached Australia 60,000 years ago, they walked into a land ruled by giant kangaroos, 10-meter snakes, hippo-sized wombats, and deadly predators like the marsupial lion. Cut off ...

Scientists have collected ancient RNA from mammoth samples up to 52,000 years old. Learn how they can use that RNA to ...

Featuring some of the coolest special effects in TV history, we go behind the scenes with the CGI masters at London’s ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna.Lead authors PhD ...

Koalas may look like peaceful, eucalyptus-chewing tree-dwellers, while the marsupial lion was one of the fiercest Ice Age predators ever to roam Australia. But scientists have now discovered that ...

Overview of Fossil Barracudas (Sphyraenidae) from the Cenozoic Strata in Japan, and Associated Global Climate Events. Open ...

A sleepy koala may seem worlds apart from a giant Ice Age predator, but scientists have uncovered the first molecular ...

A deep dive into animal influencer Lindsay Nikole's first book 'Epic Earth' all about the history of ancient Earth.

Dr Mariya Antonosyan, a molecular archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Dr Torben Rick, a curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, and Prof Nicole Boivin, ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.

The giant beasts and ancient megafauna that roamed Southeast Asia 100,000 years ago died because of climate change. A team of scientists from Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, has published ...