where I had a brush with the sole surviving member of the Malagasy megafauna—the Nile crocodile. After 14 hours on the road, crammed into the trucks like telephone-booth-stuffers, we're eager to ...

(Researchers have found evidence that certain populations of surviving megafauna, including musk oxen in Asia, fell precipitously at the end of the Ice Age.) "It gets a little bit beyond ...

A 2023 study analysing the DNA of 139 surviving megafauna species reveals a troubling decline in their populations over the last 50,000 years. Further, challenging prevailing theories that blame ...

A long, long time ago, marsupials the size of small trucks, 2-meter-tall "thunder birds" and 5-meter-long venomous lizards roamed Australia. These animals—and more—were Australia's megafauna.