A long, long time ago, marsupials the size of small trucks, 2-meter-tall "thunder birds" and 5-meter-long venomous lizards roamed Australia. These animals—and more—were Australia's megafauna.

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 ...

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 Palaeolithic ...

New research into the Australian fossil record suggests there is no hard evidence of humans killing megafauna species. A human-made cut in the shin of an extinct kangaroo species was likely made after ...

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 ...

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 ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out Australian megafauna’ theory. Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still ...

The fossilised bone of Procoptodon browneorum, a now-extinct giant kangaroo, discovered at Mammoth Cave, WA. Credit: Anna Gillespie/Supplied A decades-old theory that First Nations peoples hunted ...

Michael Westaway receives funding from the Australian Research Council. For most of Australia’s human past sea levels were lower than they are today. Australia’s mainland was connected to Papua New ...