Bone remains found in a Tibetan cave 3,280 m above sea level indicate an ancient group of humans survived here for many millennia, according to a new study published in Nature. The Denisovans are an ...

DNA has shown that the extinct humans thrived around the world, from chilly Siberia to high-altitude Tibet — perhaps even in the Pacific islands. By Carl Zimmer Leer en español Neanderthals may have ...

July 3 (Reuters) - Thousands of bone fragments discovered in a cave on the Tibetan Plateau in China are offering rare insight into the lives of Denisovans, the mysterious extinct cousins of ...

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 ...

What drove Neanderthals to extinction is one of the biggest mysteries in human history. A new book “The Naked Neanderthal” says humans were the main cause thanks to their superior weapons. The author, ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever has. However, the other members of our species' lineage weren't nearly as ...

The debate has raged for decades: Was it humans or climate change that led to the extinction of many species of large mammals, birds, and reptiles that have disappeared from Earth over the past 50,000 ...

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Ancient humans hunted a now-extinct species of elephant 12,000 years ago in Chile, according to a new study. Photo from PLOS One Thousands of years ago, early humans were hunting massive animals in ...

This A.I.-generated illustration shows what some of the undiscovered extinct birds might have looked like. U.K. Center for Ecology & Hydrology Humans have likely driven 1,430 bird species to ...

The Animal Crossing franchise places players in an adorable and cozy world, but one fan theory asks if there's more to the ...