A recent study from Aarhus University's ECONOVO Center concludes that human hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of megafauna extinctions over the last 50,000 years. The loss of ...

The mysterious Australian megafauna extinction may have been caused other factors such as climate change and not physical characteristics, a new study has found. Giant animals, including wombat-like ...

A giant kangaroo so big that it had to walk, not hop, a two-tonne wombat and a two-metre tall bird — they may sound like formidable animals, but they never stood a chance. For years scientists have ...