Human activity has accelerated extinction rates, raising concerns that we may be entering a sixth mass extinction.

Evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, probably during overlapping periods, has been ...

Whether it was a global pandemic, a planet-wide volcanic event or a gigantic space rock, we reached the end of the line for ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

Since the turn of the millennium, our understanding of our ancestors and extended cousins has shifted dramatically, thanks to ...

Remains found at the Nesher Ramla settlement in Israel reveal that archaic humans hunted wild cattle 120,000 years ago.

The difference in the scope of their crisis focus represents the most evident divergence in their thinking. Hawking's ...

Crucially, the cub also lived around the time the woolly rhino went extinct, giving researchers a rare genetic snapshot from ...

An unusual DNA source shows woolly rhinos did not slowly decline genetically, pointing instead to rapid climate warming.

The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...

About 14,400 years ago, a weeks-old wolf puppy ate its last meal - meat from a woolly rhinoceros - shortly before dying on ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford has shown that the shape and orientation of coastlines ...