An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

Just because scientists claim they have now brought back the extinct dire wolf, should we consider ‘bringing back’ more extinct species, or is it best to let sleeping dogs lie?

These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in ...

Imagine a world where the polar bear, stranded on a shrinking ice floe, could stand before a court and demand justice for its ...

In the US, a bridge across a major 10-lane high speed freeway is being built at a cost of more than US$100 million so that ...

Professor John Hawks was presented with the Roy Chapman Andrews Society Distinguished Explorer Award Friday on the Beloit ...

New research, published in the journal Science ... Finding another remnant of this ancient human species, which is only known from DNA and a handful of fragmentary fossils, is an important step ...

The study revealed that the number of species in sites affected by human activity is, on average, nearly 20% lower compared ...