For 30 years, researchers tracked almost 13,000 ocean giants from over 100 species to map where they travel, feed and breed. Big animals of the ocean go about their days mostly hidden from view.

In 2016, Australian beachcombers uncovered fossils that revealed Australia’s ancient megafauna, including giant marsupials ...

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 ...

Australia was once home to a group of extraordinary animals known as Megafauna. What became of them has been debated for over a century, but now a team of scientists are re-opening this Palaeolithic ...

A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have survived as recently as 20,000 years ago -- long after large-bodied megafauna on ...

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 ...

Thousands of years ago the first Australians once shared the land with giant kangaroos and other cow-sized marsupials. People arrived at Sahul (a past continent made up of Tasmania, mainland Australia ...

The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain plants ...