Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests ...

A decades-old theory that First Nations peoples hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction might not stack up, according to ...

In a new study, University of New South Wales Professor Mike Archer and colleagues re-examined the fossilized tibia (lower ...

Japan has reported an outbreak of severe bird flu on an egg farm in the northern part of the country, the World Organisation ...

Four nominees from four categories will go on to represent Victoria in the national Australian of the Year Awards, to be ...

Temperature records have tumbled in two states, as millions of people swelter through record highs and destructive ...

An ice block is an Australian pastime on a hot day, and it's no different for the animals at Oakvale Wildlife Park. The Salt ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

New technology has shown the incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo were in fact made after the bone was ...

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

Palaeontologists say there is no hard evidence in the fossil record that extinct Australian megafauna were butchered by First ...

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the ...