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 ...

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 ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

A new scientific study is uncovering unprecedented details about the lives and genetics of extinct human relatives. An international team of researchers has determined the biological sex of an ...

(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...

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

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, ...