Today’s land animals are a bunch of runts compared with creatures from the not-too-distant past. Beasts as big as elephants, gorillas and bears were once much more common around the world. Then, ...

A new study shows how the loss of large animals thousands of years ago still shapes ecosystems today and may affect their future stability.

Before modern humans spread across the globe, Earth was already losing enormous predators and strange megafauna to climate ...

Some nights, when I should be doing something sensible or useful, I end up looking at pictures of blue whales and feeling very, very tiny. We talk a lot about the megafauna that are gone – mammoths, ...

Identifying prehistoric Australian megafauna from fossils may have gotten easier thanks to collagen peptide markers. These peptides can help researchers distinguish different animal genera and perhaps ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Giant ancient animals known as megafauna, originally thought to have ...

Madagascar is renowned for its unique and varied biodiversity, which spans dry grasslands, wet rain forests, mangroves and deserts. This variety, combined with the island’s isolation and size, has ...

Nearly 42,000 years ago, massive animals such as 6-foot-tall birds, 23-foot long lizards and wombat-like creatures the size of a Buick could be seen roaming the countryside. But a new study has found ...

Madagascar is renowned for its unique and varied biodiversity, which spans dry grasslands, wet rain forests, mangroves and deserts. This variety, combined with the island's isolation and size, has ...