Rainforests not humans drove megafauna extinction in Southeast Asia
The takeover of Southeast Asia’s grasslands with today’s rainforests contributed to the extinction of the region’s megafauna and ancient humans.
The takeover of Southeast Asia’s grasslands with today’s rainforests contributed to the extinction of the region’s megafauna and ancient humans.
The critically endangered orangutan - one of humankind’s closest living relatives - has become a symbol of wild nature’s vulnerability in the face of human actions and an icon of rainforest conservation.
A giant prehistoric Ice Age marsupial related to wombats and koalas has been discovered to be the only marsupial known...
Hunting was not easy in a rainforest in ancient times but new research has found modern humans made a way...
Griffith University researcher Associate Professor Adam Brumm’s quest to find the origins of Homo floresiensis, the enigmatic ‘hobbits’ of Flores, Indonesia, has been given a significant boost through a prestigious Future Fellowship from the Australian Research Council.
Researchers dive into cave sites to learn more about Australia’s most mysterious animals – extinct marsupial megafauna.
Griffith University researchers will lead 17 new Discovery Projects across a broad field of knowledge after being awarded over $7.735 million from the Australian Research Council.
Now protected underwater cave site contains the only known extensive underwater vertebrate fossil deposits in Australia.
Pulses of increased rainfall transformed arid Arabian Peninsula into a route for human population movements over last 400,000 years.
A Griffith University led team discovered the arrival of ancient humans to uninhabited islands doesn’t always lead to widespread extinctions as is often thought.