Elephants (megaherbivores) in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania, Africa. (Courtesy of Juan Cantalapiedra via Courthouse News) (CN) — Africa is known for its megafauna. Its massive, iconic creatures, ...

A new study provides a comprehensive global synthesis of how vessel traffic affects large marine wildlife, including whales, dolphins, seals, manatees, sea turtles, sharks and rays. The study, ...

For most of Australia's human past sea levels were lower than they are today. Australia's mainland was connected to Papua New Guinea and Tasmania as part of a larger landmass called "Sahul". During ...

Earth once hosted many massive creatures called megafauna; they are technically defined as animals with mature body weights that exceed 44 kilograms (97 pounds). Megaherbivores, on the other hand, are ...

Brazil’s federal government created a huge conservation area on March 6 to protect a critical biodiversity hotspot in the ...

Jabiru birds fly past a herd of Columbian Mammoths as they make their way across a river delta. A new study published in Nature Communications suggests that the extinction of North America's largest ...

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A recent excavation in Texas yielded some “colossal creatures,” according to local officials – and archaeologists are hopeful more will be uncovered soon. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

Ancient clues, in the shape of fossils and archaeological evidence of varying quality scattered across Australia, have formed the basis of several hypotheses about the fate of megafauna that vanished ...

Erick Lundgren receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Large introduced herbivores such as feral horses and camels are often seen as “invasive” species which damage native plants. My ...

Humans haven’t always been great to nature. But at least our ancestors may not have killed off island megafauna in the distant past, so that’s something. New research, published in the Proceedings of ...