Prehistoric humans hunt a woolly mammoth. More and more research shows that this species – and at least 46 other species of megaherbivores – were driven to extinction by humans. The debate has raged ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research is documenting how rising temperatures and human activity are altering animal ...

One of the most intriguing and intricate mysteries in paleontology is the disappearance of North America's giant mammals, or megafauna, which included saber-toothed cats, mastodons, and mammoths, some ...

50,000 years ago, North America was ruled by megafauna. Lumbering mammoths roamed the tundra, while forests were home to towering mastodons, fierce saber-toothed tigers and enormous wolves. Bison and ...

The debate has raged for decades: Was it humans or climate change that led to the extinction of many species of large mammals, birds, and reptiles that have disappeared from Earth over the past 50,000 ...

The environment of what is now White Sands National Park in New Mexico, with Columbian mammoths, a ground sloth, giant wolves, lions, camels, and saber-toothed tigers. Credit: National Park Service / ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

A recent excavation in Texas yielded some “colossal creatures,” according to local officials – and archaeologists are hopeful more will be uncovered soon. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT ...