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?

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

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 ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that ... spanning 250,000 to 30,000 years ago — because it includes the first appearance of our species, our arrival into many parts of the ...

"Human pressure is also changing the composition of species communities ... as in the case of spraying pesticides, introduces new substances into a habitat that destroy or weaken the organisms ...

The Trump administration is looking to remove degradation of habitat from its definition of "harm" to endangered species with ...