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.

The last ice age ended abruptly, causing rapid warming and ecological upheaval. Yet, North America’s megafauna had survived previous cycles of warming and cooling. Why was this one different?

New research painted a more accurate picture of the megafauna that spread widely around the Americas before they went extinct.

Who or what snuffed out the mammoths and other megafauna 13,000 years ago? It takes a certain kind of person to take on this question as his or her life's work. You have to be itching to know the ...

Since the last major ice age, populations of large animals have dwindled. These declines have directly affected climate ...

(CN) — New research on fossil footprint evidence suggests that humans were present in North America earlier than previously believed. Researchers led by Matthew Bennett, a geographer at England’s ...

We are researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event. Hundreds of large mammal species disappeared during the transition from the last glaciation to the present ...

Professor Adrian Lister, Museum expert on extinct megafauna, tells the hidden history behind the American mastodon on display in Hintze Hall. When Albert Koch uncovered a graveyard of fossilised ...

Carbon-dating teeth suggests two large mammal species roamed northeastern Brazil 3,500 years ago Geologist Fábio Faria and colleagues carbon-dated eight fragments of megafauna teeth of different ...