Tens of thousands of years ago, nearly two dozen kangaroo species vanished, part of a great extinction event. Science reporter Ari Daniel says hundreds of prehistoric teeth may now help ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, during the late Pleistocene, many large animal species were simply erased from the planet during a widespread extinction. In Australia, nearly two dozen kangaroo ...

An artist’s impression of the newly described fossil species Protemnodon viator and its relative Protemnodon anak, compared at scale to the living red kangaroo and eastern grey kangaroo.

In a mass extinction event some 40,000 years ago, Australia lost 90% of its large species. New research suggests climate change played a much smaller role than once thought, though not all agree. Tens ...