This video explores extinct animals that disappeared before early humans reached their habitats. Fossil records reveal massive predators and herbivores that never overlapped with human populations.

Every new extinction ripples out beyond the affected species, from ecosystems to human knowledge across culture, spirituality ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

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, ...