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 ...

Giant Megafauna Lived Alongside Humans As Recently As 3,500 Years Ago Carbon dating of teeth fragments found in Brazil reveals that some species persisted for thousands of years longer than thought.

Key Takeaways: Megafauna Megafauna are large animals, like elephants, whales, and even humans. They are found worldwide, but many of them are now extinct due to human interference and climate change.

Researchers determined that footprints in White Sands National Park in New Mexico are from the oldest migrants to North ...

By physically engineering their environments, megafauna such as dinosaurs curbed fruit seed sizes—a role that now may be filled by humans ...

Although the strategy behind ancient humans’ megafauna hunting efforts appears to be coalescing, Byram and his team want to conduct a more realistic test involving a replica mammoth to simulate ...

Archaeologists in Texas recently discovered prehistoric megafauna bones, including a giant ground sloth, during a highway project in Lubbock, according to officials.

Early humans preserved megafauna meat in a smokehouse New Israeli research suggests large game was smoked as early as 1.8 million years ago, a survival strategy that may have helped shape human ...

Today’s megafauna is mostly made up of cattle and other domestic animals and there have been suggestions from some in the livestock industry that the overall effect on the planet is neutral.

These humans — who, without the megafauna, now needed new food sources — began cultivating the fruit, “saving avocados,” Dr. Kennett said.