Scientists have discovered a mass grave that is home to about 50 prehistoric "giant wombats," the largest known marsupial that ever lived. The BBC reports the Diprotodon skeletons, believed to be ...

Every year on October 22, World Wombat Day is celebrated to honour one of Australia’s most fascinating native animals, the ...

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

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

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

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Left-handed snails, giant wombats, spiny trilobites, zombie ants, glyptodonts…these are a few of the fascinating animals and plants whose fossils ...

Palorchestes azael was an unusual marsupial herbivore. It had retracted nasal bones on the skull, which means it could have had a small trunk like that of tapirs. Carli Peters of the Universidade do ...