The curious minds at What If investigate the consequences if humans suddenly went extinct, revealing how the planet and ...

AI superintelligence could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons, but importantly, nobody has built it yet. We can still ...

YANACOCHA RESERVE, Ecuador (AP) — Deep in the Ecuadorian Andes, an ancient forest stands as a final sanctuary against the ...

“Hundreds of fossils representing over a dozen species of Ardipithecus, Australopithecus, and Homo had been found in the Afar ...

A rare fossil discovery in Ethiopia has pushed the known range of Paranthropus hundreds of miles farther north than ever before. The 2.6-million-year-old jaw suggests this ancient relative of humans ...

As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

Three Andean condors have been released into the Patagonia National Park in Chile to help protect the species, which is vital ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

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

A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...

A new study from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa challenges a long-standing scientific narrative about the decline of ...

Over the last 100,000 years, 64 percent of large animal species have gone extinct. The loss of large animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths has been somewhat evenly spread over all ...