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 ...

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 ...

"We can use the fossils to track individuals ... could be used to better understand the disappearance of Australia's megafauna. Prehistoric species of giant echidna, wombat-like marsupials ...

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 ...