Scientists have discovered new markers that enable the identification of species from fossilized bone fragments, offering new ...

“Fossils deposited in hot, dry and arid places, such as large parts of Australia, lose their collagen very early…. The major ...

Learn how researchers used mass spectrometry of collagen to successfully identify some of Australia's megafauna.

Shepparton Eagles' Joe Tunumafono glides past Wodonga Wombats' Mitchell Cameron. Photo by Rechelle Zammit ...

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago.

What happened to all the megafauna? From moas to mammoths, many large animals went extinct between 50 and 10,000 years ago. Learning why could provide ...

While the modern world has some big and scary creatures, the truth is that many of those animals are nothing compared to ...

A wombat emerges from a burrow at RUNR The Northern Hairy-nosed wombat is rarer than the giant panda and the Sumatran tiger, and due to land clearing was almost entirely wiped out in the early 1980s.

"Imagine these majestic birds competing for food in landscapes across southern Australia ruled by megafauna such as the giant wombat-like Diprotodon optatum and the 'marsupial lion' Thylacoleo ...

Other large species like Diprotodon, a giant wombat, and Megalania, the largest terrestrial lizard ever, were also disappearing. Bigger is not always better, especially as Australia began to dry up ...

The most complete skull of a giant wombat that roamed the continent 80,000 years ago has been described for the first time in history. The place we call Australia today was in many ways vastly ...

That includes giant wombat relatives. However, there has been a bit of a wombat relative identity crisis occurring in the study of these marsupials. [Related: Giant beasts once roamed Madagascar.