New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...

Thousands of years ago the first Australians once shared the land with giant kangaroos and other cow-sized marsupials. People arrived at Sahul (a past continent made up of Tasmania, mainland Australia ...

Aboriginal people have been in Australia for at least 65,000 years, longer than previously thought, roaming the area alongside giant megafauna, scientists said in a finding that sheds fresh light on ...