After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million ...
In the bitter cold of Ice Age Montana some 13,000 years ago, a grieving band of early Americans buried a young child with ...
Scientists have discovered that the first Australians lived alongside 600-pound kangaroos and car-sized lizards. "These ...
A new and improved model of Thylacoleo carnifex, Australia’s ancient marsupial lion, is now on display at the Naracoorte ...
New research examines chemical signatures to determine the diet of a prehistoric boy and his mother, suggesting the Clovis ...
The Clovis people were prehistoric Native Americans who lived ... For example, the animal parts left at Clovis sites are dominated by megafauna, and the projectile points are large, affixed ...
About 10,000 years ago, the climate began to warm, and most of these so-called megafauna went extinct. Only a handful of smaller, though still impressively large, representatives remain ...
This phenomenon, known as the late-Quaternary megafauna extinction, marks a significant departure from previous extinction events in Earth's history, with distinct characteristics that set it apart.
However, there were also other incredible prehistoric animals ... about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals that usually weighed over 44kg.