It would be easy to envy bats, bears and hedgehogs their seasonal torpor, but research has suggested that humans once ...

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

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 major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

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

(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 ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

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, ...