Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist.

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 ...

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Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...

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 ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?