Some mathematicians have predicted when humanity’s downfall might occur—though the circumstances are unspecified ...

For more than a century, human origins have been told as a story of expansion, migration, and survival. But deep in that ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the question posed by ...

Mass extinction is not just a theory; Earth has already gone through five of them, including the event about 65 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. New research continues to warn that ...

Accurate forecasting has long been an art and a science, but when the stakes are high, it is smart to make it into a tournament. William Culbert Researchers recently systematically surveyed two ...

Humans already intervene in nature through land use, climate impacts, and species management. The harder question is when intervention is responsible. Colossal frames de-extinction as a conservation ...