Ancient stone tools recovered from North Carolina and South Carolina are reshaping archaeologists' understanding of Ice Age hunting in eastern North America. While examining 120 Paleoamerican stone ...

New research highlight the dangers of standing by while large animals go extinct. Steller’s sea cows weren’t really cows. Apart from living in the Bering Sea, they were much, much larger—perhaps 10 ...

A recent study from Aarhus University's ECONOVO Center concludes that human hunting, rather than climate change, was the primary cause of megafauna extinctions over the last 50,000 years. The loss of ...

New research led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks archaeologist reveals that the earliest Native Americans had highly specialized diets, primarily hunting the largest animals on the landscape, and ...

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.

BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 29 (UPI) --Some 50,000 years ago, Australia featured a giant flightless bird called the Genyornis newtoni. It stood seven feet tall and weighed upwards of 500 pounds. But like the ...

Human activity may be responsible for the demise of many animal species in both historic and prehistoric times—remember, we’re in the middle of the sixth great extinction now—but in ancient Australia ...

Australian scientists have concluded that human hunting caused the extinction of the ancient giant animals – or megafauna - that roamed the continent and vanished about 40,000 years ago. Jonathan ...

For the overkill hypothesis to hold true, prehistoric humans must have killed off the megafauna very rapidly - within 1,000 years of arriving in a region. If the extinction happened more slowly than ...