A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

This video revealed how Homo sapiens once lived in constant fear of a stronger, faster, more ruthless human species. It explained how Neanderthals dominated the ancient world, hunting our ancestors ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

This innovative approach combines climate data, archaeological evidence, and population dynamics to simulate how Neanderthals moved across the landscape. The model reveals that by the time ...

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

Stone tools discovered decades ago in a Polish cave have been reexamined using modern methods, revealing an age far older than previously believed. Dated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, the ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?