The extinction of the megafauna – giant marsupials that lived in Australia until 60,000 to 45,000 years ago – is a topic of fierce debate. Some researchers have suggested a reliance on certain plants ...
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Study links megafauna extinctions 10,000 years ago to today’s food webs
Ten thousand years ago, the Americas teemed with mastodons, giant ground sloths, and saber-toothed cats. Within a few millennia, nearly all of them were gone. A study published in April 2025 in the ...
A new study shows how the loss of large animals thousands of years ago still shapes ecosystems today and may affect their future stability.
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 ...
A new study in PNAS finds that the extinction of large mammals between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago continues to impact predator-prey dynamics, especially in the Americas. Researchers analyzed 389 ...
"The art of tracking may well be the origin of science." This is the departure point for a 2013 book by Louis Liebenberg, co-founder of an organization devoted to environmental monitoring. The demise ...
Honey locust seed pods have a sweet nutritious substance surrounding the seeds, but not many animals these days can eat through the tough pods.
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