A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...

AI doomers claim that superintelligence will lead to human extinction—but their scenario makes implausible assumptions about ...

The Kagus Bird Is Seriously Endangered, And If It Goes Extinct, Its Unique Genetic Nasal Skin Flaps Goes With It ...

The Origins Of Homo Sapiens With Professor Chris Stringer' From where did humans originate? What did the earliest humans look ...

The planet is seeing a decline in biodiversity, but extinctions are relatively rare and don’t meet the threshold for a sixth ...

A comparison of the thylacine’s genome to other marsupials has revealed that the creatures lost genetic diversity long before ...

The researchers found humans are likely to go extinct in 250 million years- a stretch if we stop our fossil fuel burning and greenhouse gas emissions, which researchers say need to stop now.

Seeds in Madagascar's forests are getting smaller, and new research suggests that human activities are playing a role in this ...

"But why does it feel so intense?" "Maybe your body is reacting to your mind's fears," I said. "Even when there's no ...

A new analysis suggests that recent extinctions have been rare, limited mostly to islands and slowing. But others argue this is all just semantics.

Denisovans were first discovered as another relation to modern humans in 2010—It turns out they might be our closest relative ...