Short ancient humans in Indonesia called Homo floresiensis disappeared possibly due to severe drought that gripped their ...

Stone tools discovered decades ago in a Polish cave have been reexamined using modern methods, revealing an age far older than previously believed. Dated to between 450,000 and 550,000 years ago, the ...

This video revealed how Homo sapiens once lived in constant fear of a stronger, faster, more ruthless human species. It ...

(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...