New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Subscribe to ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...

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There has been a long-standing controversy about whether or not the first people to arrive in Australia more than 60,000 years ago were responsible for, or contributed through hunting to, the ...

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...