Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...

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 ...

Massive underground tunnels discovered across South America are not human-made. Scientists now believe extinct giant ground ...

More than three decades after Jurassic Park first terrified and enthralled moviegoers, de-extinction is alive and well. At the theater, Jurassic World Rebirth (the seventh film in the Jurassic ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

The moa were a group of giant flightless birds that lived in New Zealand. They disappeared from Earth about 600 years ago, ...

Researchers are looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest known primate that ever lived.