It seems some species of megafauna may have existed for much longer than previously assumed. For a long time, the overall consensus has been that mammalian megafauna – giant mammals that roamed ...

And because the fossil record shows the widespread decline of American megafauna starting around the same time — with North America losing 70% of its large mammals, and South America losing more ...

And because the fossil record shows the widespread decline of American megafauna starting around the same time - with North America losing 70% of its large mammals, and South America losing more ...

Check out this feature to learn more about what may have killed off the North American megafauna, from overhunting to climate change, disease, or a comet.

Archaeologists have shed light on how prehistoric humans in North America hunted megafauna, such as mammoths. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, proposes that these hunters used ...

Fossilized teeth from two ancient megafauna suggest they roamed Brazil 3,500 years ago. The find “opens the door to rewrite South American history.” ...

The diet of a key prehistoric American group appears to have been rich in mammoth meat, a study analyzing data extracted from the 12,800-year-old remains of a toddler has revealed.

After the Great American Biotic Interchange, these megafauna species coexisted in this region for hundreds of thousands of years and through multiple ice age cycles, until their abrupt extinction ...

If these animals were alive in Brazil at this time, then they would have lived side-by-side with humans who arrived in South America sometime between 20,000 and 17,000 years ago. This suggests a ...