At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

The curious minds at What If investigate the consequences if humans suddenly went extinct, revealing how the planet and ...

Neanderthals repeatedly returned to the cave to store horned animal skulls, revealing this cultural tradition was transmitted over time.

We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a ...

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...

The coastal marten is about the size of a ferret and lives in heavily wooded forests.

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

Land snail extinctions are accelerating across islands, exposing a devastating collapse of some of the world’s most fragile ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

The chin is one of our most familiar features, yet scientists still debate why we evolved it. Here’s a breakdown of what we ...

It’s a phenomenon that was called the Homogenocene even before a similar term growing in popularity, the Anthropocene, was ...