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

Meet Thylacosmilus – the sabertooth predator you’ve probably never heard of. Unlike big cats, this fearsome hunter had ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...

A decades-old theory that First Nations peoples hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction might not stack up, according to ...

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

In a new study, University of New South Wales Professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined the fossilized tibia (lower ...

SYDNEY, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- Researchers in Australia have challenged a long-standing theory that Indigenous Australians hunted the continent's giant prehistoric animals to extinction, suggesting ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

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 ...

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.

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