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

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study.

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 ...

Dr. Sarah McFarland, an author, professor, and avid ecocritic, explores this question in her upcoming presentation at WKU, ...