After the extinction of the dinosaurs during the Cretaceous mass extinction (the fifth mass extinction) about 66 million years ago, a new era of “megafauna” emerged. These were large animals ...

(See a list of all 35 vanished genera of North American ... to lay blame for a continent's worth of lost megafauna at the foot of the first Americans. Gary Haynes begs to differ.

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It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed. However, some recent studies have obtained fossil evidence that challenges this consensus. In ...

Carbon-dating teeth suggests two large mammal species roamed northeastern Brazil 3,500 years ago Geologist Fábio Faria and colleagues carbon-dated eight fragments of megafauna teeth of different ...

The BC Megafauna Project looks at ice age animals found in British Columbia. Our aim is to find and document as many of them as possible, from both public and private collections. We want to know when ...

Australia was once home to a group of extraordinary animals known as Megafauna. What became of them has been debated for over a century, but now a team of scientists are re-opening this paleolithic ...