Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

Earth once roamed with creatures beyond imagination—towering predators, colossal grazers, and alien-looking giants. Some ...

A bone fragment led Uruguayan paleontologists to reconstruct the existence of a colossal vulture, larger than the Andean ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Cliff-rappelling scientists uncovered a crossbow bolt, part of a slingshot and 25 shoes in ancient vulture nesting sites ...

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

New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous ...

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

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 ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.