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

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

For decades, anthropologists lumped these ancient populations into a single species, Homo heidelbergensis, long believed to ...

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

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

Ric Roman Waugh directs the sequel to his 2020 hit, with Gerard Butler returning to face the post-apocalypse on a ...

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

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

Human-wildlife conflict has driven the decline of once-abundant species and is pushing others to the brink of extinction.

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

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

A seven-million-year-old fossil may rewrite human origins, showing our ancestors were walking upright far earlier than anyone expected.