The Diprotodon was one of the Sahul species which humans made extinct in the Pleistocene GREG WOOD/Getty Images Humans were the cause of huge extinction events in the Sahul, which took place in the ...

Showing where Australia's first people likely moved can give archaeologists more insight into their work NEW archaeological records provide evidence of a lost Atlantis-like landscape that early humans ...

Excavations in Papua New Guinea’s western highlands have turned up the oldest well-documented evidence of people in Sahul, a land mass that once joined the island to Australia. Stone tools and plant ...

During lower sea levels a vast archipelago formed on the Australian northwest continental shelf (top). A modern-day example of an archipelago on a submerged continental shelf is the Åland Islands near ...

A 2016 beach discovery of ancient megafauna fossils in Australia revealed a past inhabited by giant marsupials and flightless ...

Scientists have advanced our knowledge about the most likely routes those early Australians travelled as they peopled the continent. There are many hypotheses about where the Indigenous ancestors ...