Ten thousand years ago, the Americas teemed with mastodons, giant ground sloths, and saber-toothed cats. Within a few ...

Loss of species including mammoths, saber-tooth cats and direwolves has had long-lasting impacts and could tell us how ...

A new study shows how the loss of large animals thousands of years ago still shapes ecosystems today and may affect their ...

Colossal, the company that brought back the dire wolf and aims to "de-extinct" the woolly mammoth and dodo bird, announced ...

A new study in PNAS shows that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago permanently altered predator-prey networks, especially in the Americas. These simplified food webs ...

Earth's food webs suffer when giant animals go extinct, even 10,000 years later.

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide crucial evidence about prehistoric ecosystems and ...

Australia is known for its unusual animal life, from koalas to kangaroos. But once upon a time, the Australian landscape had even weirder fauna, like Palorchestes azael, a marsupial with immense claws ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...