At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

We humans like to think we’re special in basically all ways, but if the history of life is any indication, our species has a ...

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

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, ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...