There has been a long-standing controversy about whether or not the first people to arrive in Australia more than 60,000 years ago were responsible for, or contributed through hunting to, the ...

There’s not much left to show megafauna were hunted, but that doesn’t prove they weren’t. Peter Murray What is the oldest debate in Australian science? Probably, the argument over what caused ...

Ancient stone tools recovered from North Carolina and South Carolina are reshaping archaeologists' understanding of Ice Age hunting in eastern North America. While examining 120 Paleoamerican stone ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.

New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, and ...

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 ...

New research highlight the dangers of standing by while large animals go extinct. Steller’s sea cows weren’t really cows. Apart from living in the Bering Sea, they were much, much larger—perhaps 10 ...

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 29 (UPI) --Some 50,000 years ago, Australia featured a giant flightless bird called the Genyornis newtoni. It stood seven feet tall and weighed upwards of 500 pounds. But like the ...