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 limited time on this planet. So the question is: when are we gonna go ...

Developers are now testing a social platform where artificial intelligence systems can argue, post, and refine their views ...

Imagine an asteroid striking Earth and wiping out most of the human population. Even if some lucky people survived the impact ...

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 ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...

Up to 50 percent of species—which included 12 bird species and 4 frog species—on Aotearoa’s North Island went extinct before ...