Humans are having a highly detrimental impact on biodiversity worldwide. Not only is the number of species declining, but the ...

Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than ...

Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

Last year, speculative fiction author Ray Nayler published "The Mountain in the Sea," his first novel, depicting a not-too-distant future in which humankind is faced with an awe-inspiring (and ...

In 1993, a search for extraterrestrial life, a transmission's received, detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual ...

Like the majority of named categories in Lio animal classification, these derivatives coincide with the species or genera of modern systematics. At the same time, Lio distinguish humans from nonhuman ...

The journey ends with modern humans as the only surviving human species in the world today. Along the way, visitors can see star specimens from the Museum collections, and get to grips with some of ...

Humans are notorious for killing our own kind. But are we the worst? Not even close, according to a recent study, published in Nature, that examined over 1,000 mammalian species. Follow Tech ...

Further, the scientists say the tools could be evidence of an extinct human species that is believed to have existed between 450,000 to 550,000 years ago. The tools were first discovered around 50 ...