When people first arrived in what is now Queensland, they would have found the land inhabited by massive animals including goannas six metres long and kangaroos twice as tall as a human. We have ...

Meet some of Australia's larger-than-life ancient giants in this animated series about megafauna, narrated by comedian Sammy ...

Fossil remains of the extinct Marsupial Lion Thylacoleo at Victoria Fossil Cave in Naracoorte Caves. Complex ecological network models have uncovered a previously unrecognised process contributing to ...

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 ...

Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks to collagen peptide markers. These peptides can help researchers distinguish different animal genera and perhaps ...

A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have survived as recently as 20,000 years ago – long after large-bodied megafauna on ...

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 combination of climate and people drove Australia’s biggest beasts to extinction. Unearthing the reason why Australia’s ancient megafauna, from massive marsupials to 7-metre-long lizards, became ...

For 30 years, researchers tracked almost 13,000 ocean giants from over 100 species to map where they travel, feed and breed. Big animals of the ocean go about their days mostly hidden from view.

A leisurely weekend spent by the seaside can create a vision in one’s mind: walking down the beach under the shimmering rays of light reflecting off the waves, and suddenly seeing something strange ...