On the prehistoric plains of Australia shone a golden age for giant flightless birds. There was the "Demon Duck of Doom" that lived around 15 million years ago in what is now the continent's Northern ...

Prehistoric Australia was not the sunny, laid back continent we know today. Between 126,000 and 12,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene era, humans shared the land with terrifying megafauna: ...

Welcome to prehistoric Australia, a place that was filled with dangerous and terrifying megafauna.

Let’s turn back the hands of time. Before extinction knocked dinosaurs off their pillar, before the “Great Dying” extinction wiped out 95% of all organisms – we had the Paleozoic Era. During this age ...

It was a mission for the trees. As part of a secret operation, Australian firefighters were launched on a mission to save prehistoric trees from the wildfires raging across Australia. Environment ...

(SYDNEY) — Firefighters in Australia successfully embarked on a secret mission to save the prehistoric — and extremely rare — Wollemi pine trees from the bushfires ravaging the country, officials said ...

When seen from above - amongst acres of charred, native forest - there's a thin trail of green. Australia's prehistoric Wollemi Pines, live to see another day - saved from the grips of the country's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — An ancient grove of pine trees whose ...

A new species of prehistoric fish was found in iron-rich stone in southeastern Australia. Screengrab from Australian Museum's video What can fossils tell us about prehistoric life? The length of a ...

The creature, officially named Paludirex vincenti, measured more than 16 feet (five meters) long and dominated waterways in southeastern Queensland, according to a press release from the University of ...

A team of firefighters saved a prehistoric tree species from extinction as fires continue in Australia. The trees have outlived the dinosaurs. A prehistoric tree species was narrowly saved from ...

Firefighters embarked on the mission to save the rare Wollemi Pines. Firefighters in Australia successfully embarked on a secret mission to save the prehistoric -- and extremely rare -- Wollemi pine ...