The Diprotodon was one of the Sahul species which humans made extinct in the Pleistocene GREG WOOD/Getty Images Humans were the cause of huge extinction events in the Sahul, which took place in the ...

New research conducted by a team of archaeologists and Earth scientists has shed light on the ancient landscapes of Sahul, the Pleistocene (Ice Age) landmass comprising Australia and New Guinea. The ...

Showing where Australia's first people likely moved can give archaeologists more insight into their work NEW archaeological records provide evidence of a lost Atlantis-like landscape that early humans ...

A new study that has been published in the journal Science Advances indicates that ancient humans traveled to Australia and New Guinea at least 60,000 years ago, significantly earlier than previously ...

We know it is more than 60,000 years since the first people entered the continent of Sahul — the giant landmass that connected New Guinea, Australia and Tasmania when sea levels were lower than today.