Julie Meachen, an expert in Ice Age megafauna, skirts a dirt ledge called “the Saddle” deep inside a remarkable hollow in northern Wyoming known as Natural Trap Cave. She stops to observe Megan ...

Previous research has noted other megafauna fossils around 6,000 and 5,000 years old in the American continent and elsewhere, says Dimila Mothé, a paleoecologist at the Universidade Federal do ...

Hundreds of megafauna fossils have been discovered over the past decade. Scientists are unearthing growing evidence to answer the question: How did these mega beasts die out? There's one thing ...

Mississippi has changed over millions of years and everything from sea monster to dire wolf fossils can be found here.

Even under today’s climatic conditions, the long-extinct straight-tusked elephant could still live in Europe. This is the ...

Australia’s giant Protemnodon kangaroos didn’t die out everywhere at the same time. Instead, extinction proceeded one habitat ...

and other megafauna 13,000 years ago ... most of the megafaunal species abruptly vanish from the fossil record. (See a list of all 35 extinct genera of North American Ice Age mammals.) ...

A new peer-reviewed study has found that, unlike modern kangaroos, the extinct marsupial megafauna Protemnodon were less mobile, which they believe, along with a change in climate, led to their ...

However, fossil evidence shows that P ... except for mountainous regions such as the Alps and the Caucasus. "In the past, megafauna like the straight-tusked elephant and their regulatory ...