Between mainland Australia and Tasmania, King Island shelters wombats and wallabies among windswept cliffs and quiet beaches.

Earth has reached its hottest temperature of the past 125,000 years, and its "vital signs" are being pushed to the brink, ...

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

Learn more about the giant nameless vulture that likely fed on dead megafauna.

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 ...

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

Celebrate World Wombat Day 2025 by uncovering amazing facts about these fascinating marsupials, from their backward pouches ...

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

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

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