Australia was once home to an incredible diversity of megafauna. Wombats were the size of hippos, kangaroos roamed as towering giants, and marsupials with massive claws lurked in the shadows. These ...

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

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 ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...

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’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected fossils. A team of archaeologists examined the fossilized leg bone of an ...

Recent fossil discoveries in Australia have shed light on the continent’s rare and unusual wildlife, from giant Pleistocene megafauna to toothed platypuses with powerful bites. These finds reveal ...

Learn more about a Megalibgwilia owenii fossil, found around 120 years ago, that today fleshes out the extinct echidna’s extent. In 1907, an Australian naturalist spotted a shard of a bone from the ...

Running from May 4-10 in Eromanga, guests can meet “Cooper” the Australotitan cooperensis and largest dinosaur ever discovered in Australia, enjoy an Australian Dinosaur Giants Tour, learn insights ...

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Europeans weren't the first people to collect fossils in Australia. First, thanks for the article. I expected the island was discovered by homo sapiens quite a lot earlier than North America (whose ...