Whether it’s a Bigfoot sighting or an encounter with the chilling Wendigo of northern Minnesota, American mythology teems ...

Who or what snuffed out the mammoths and other megafauna 13,000 years ago ... regarding why America's rich complement of big animals went extinct quite suddenly at the end of the Ice Age.

They were the ancient Australian megafauna—huge animals that roamed the continent ... dramatically large and coexistent with humans. Prehistoric humans never threw spears at Tyrannosaurus ...

All of these creatures went extinct about 13,000 years ago ... in North America shared the landscape with huge animals, the ...

It has been suggested that these large fruits, seemingly unsuited to seed dispersal by extant animals, are the products of ...

The marsupial lion is just one of numerous megafauna, or "big animals," that lived in Australia ... All of them are gone forever, rendered extinct under still mysterious circumstances sometime ...

The earliest humans emerged about 300,000 years ago. While many of Earth’s earliest life forms have long since gone extinct, some animals have stood the test of time–surviving through mass ...

From a 4-metric-ton sloth to a 15-meter snake, not forgetting the mammoth, a prehistoric megafauna with imposing bodies has been recreated at the Natural History Museum.

study author Jens-Christian Svenning emphasised that many extinct megafauna inhabited temperate or tropical climates, undermining climate as the sole explanation. The loss of so many large animal ...