Long ago, almost up until the end of the last ice age, a peculiar giant kangaroo roamed the mountainous rainforests of New Guinea.
Five top tips from a professional palaeontologist.
Imagine going through life with your arms permanently bent and locked at the elbows. Awkward, right?
Marsupial lions lived on the Australian continent from about 24 million years ago up until the end of the Pleistocene era, about 30,000 years ago.
The banded-hare wallaby is making a historic return to the Australian mainland after completely disappearing more than century ago due to predation by foxes and feral cats.
A flightless, plant-eating bird, mihirungs weighed 250kg and lived in the late Oligocene to the early Miocene, about 33 to 20 million years ago.
This ancient marsupial was a gigantic beast that roamed across Eastern Australia.
Some Australian fruits are called ‘megafauna fruits’ because the only animals capable of eating them and spreading the seeds are extinct.
What killed Australia’s megafauna? A new study has weighed in on the old debate and pointed the finger at humans to blame – but scientists remain at odds on the controversial issue.
The extinction of the giant reptiles, marsupials and birds that once called Australia home has been the subject of much debate, including the role early Australians may have had on their fate.