Study on Different Megafauna Species Reveal They Coexisted With Humans and Were Here Much Before Than Thought Experts have ...

Now researchers have found other megafauna specimens, including giant sloths and camel-like animals, that survived in South America up to around 3,500 years ago. This evidence raises questions ...

Avocados are true superfoods: dense, buttery scoops of vitamins, fat and fiber, all in a hand-size package. We worked for a long time to make them this way. According to a paper published Monday in ...

About 65 million years ago, dinosaurs lumbered through forests. After they went extinct, things changed — and the effects are ...

A painstaking study of an archaeology site in western Honduras showed just how far back the avocado has been farmed.

Some species of megafauna might have existed for much longer than the paleontological canon suggests. Current thinking says that ancient, large animals such as ground sloths went extinct about ...

For a long time, the overall consensus has been that mammalian megafauna – giant mammals that roamed the Earth in the past, including species like mammoths, giant sloths and sabertoothed tigers ...

That honor goes to the megafauna that roamed the Americas until about 12,500 years ago. These included enormous animals such ...

His research has centered on the extinctions of Pleistocene megafauna, like the aforementioned mammoths and sloths. But in a recent paper, he and other researchers went back even further — 65 ...

"Humans intervened at that point," he said, referring to the period after the mass extinction of megafauna at the end of the Pleistocene. These large animals, such as mammoths and giant sloths ...