A long, long time ago, marsupials the size of small trucks, 2-meter-tall "thunder birds" and 5-meter-long venomous lizards roamed Australia. These animals—and more—were Australia's megafauna.

Thousands of years ago the first Australians once shared the land with giant kangaroos and other cow-sized marsupials. People arrived at Sahul (a past continent made up of Tasmania, mainland Australia ...

The caves, which are in New South Wales, have played an enormous role in Australian palaeontology and remain an active ...

A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have survived as recently as 20,000 years ago – long after large-bodied megafauna on ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...

For most of Australia's human past sea levels were lower than they are today. Australia's mainland was connected to Papua New Guinea and Tasmania as part of a larger landmass called "Sahul". During ...

A giant kangaroo that once roamed on four legs through remote forests in the Papua New Guinea Highlands may have survived as recently as 20,000 years ago -- long after large-bodied megafauna on ...

Fossil remains of the extinct Marsupial Lion Thylacoleo at Victoria Fossil Cave in Naracoorte Caves. Complex ecological network models have uncovered a previously unrecognised process contributing to ...