As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Chris Stringer is tracing human ancestors back a million years, but pinpointing when exactly Homo sapiens emerged is even ...

Climate change and habitat destruction are driving species to extinction at an alarming rate. The impact extends across all ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

Deep within the remote canyons of Wollemi National Park, scientists uncovered a living fossil—a prehistoric tree once ...

Paranthropus capensis, a “gorilla-like” human relative that lived in southern Africa some 1.4 million years ago. A new study focuses on a hominin jawbone known as SK 15 that was unearthed in 1949 at ...

Abundant in the past in Nigeria, Epin trees have suffered from deforestation, driving the spice towards extinction. Kimba is a type of fermented locust bean that is used in northern Nigeria to ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's giant flightless bird, the moa. A small team of archaeologists ...

An endangered species of frog named after Charles Darwin has been saved from extinction - thanks to the London Zoo. A deadly fungus was threatening to wipe out Darwin’s frog in its native Chile. But a ...