Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...

Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, Australia was still home to enigmatic megafauna—large land animals such as giant marsupial ...

Since the tortoises' digestion process can take 28 days, the researchers are worried about the effects of the trash.

New technology has shown the incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo were in fact made after the bone was ...

The extinct animal's face structure could help explain how vertebrates, including ourselves, evolved our distinctive look.

Two fossilized "mummies" unearthed by scientists in the badlands of Wyoming of the duckbilled dinosaur Edmontosaurus reveal ...

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

In a surprising twist, agarbage dump in Spain, has turned into a hotspot for ancient fossils. The Can Mata landfill, which collects trash from the Barcelona area, is giving paleontologists an ...