The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

New research reveals that mass extinctions, from the End-Triassic event to the Late Pleistocene megafauna losses, have left ...

A 13-foot python. A 23-foot crocodile. Saber-toothed cats and mammoths. These aren’t creatures from some far-flung corner of prehistoric Africa or South America. They once lived on Taiwan — the same ...

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 ...

Extinctions are for real -- Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of living things? -- Biotic armageddon: Déjà vu over and over again -- Patterns and clues in Palezoic mass extinctions -- ...