Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist. Writing an opinion piece in Scientific American, palaeontologist and editor ...

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, probably during overlapping periods, has been ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...