In the past, several recovery plans were made to prevent the extinction of these mammals. But nothing could save them.

Not an accolade anyone wants, but for the Xerces blue butterfly, its extinction is considered the first of any American ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

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 ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such ...

Yes, we might think we’re invincible and capable of doing everything on our own, like John Wayne or James Bond; that is, until we suffer a serious injury or illness, or reach old age. That’s when we ...

Studying human evolution involves piecing together scattered clues about how we survived against tough odds. One of the biggest mysteries is understanding how large or small ancient human populations ...

A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional ...

A massive eruption 74,000 years ago shook the planet, and archaeologists are using volcanic glass to figure out how humans ...