A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...

The bison were very close to extinction.

Within the vastness of the Universe, humanity is not that big of a deal. We're not here because we're meant to be here, we're ...

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 ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...