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.

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

Few know that avocados nearly disappeared from the Earth long ago. Their survival is tied to a turn in natural history and an ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

The slow but steady rise in the population of the Kashmiri stag, or Hangul, offers a rare note of optimism in an otherwise ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest ...

Fresh findings about arm and leg bones advance the debate over whether Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, but not ...

America’s fertility crisis has arrived. The total fertility rate fell from 2.08 births per woman in 1990 to 1.62 in 2023, ...

Fossils unearthed in Morocco are the first from a little-understood period of human evolution and may be remains of a mysterious human ancestor.

Discover the monster snake that makes all modern snakes seem small by comparison. Learn about Titanoboa, the biggest snake to roam the Earth!