Should scientists intervene when faced with the possible self-destruction of a species? That question sits at the heart of ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel the mystery surrounding the extinction of Neanderthal, ancient humans, in ...

A poignant recounting of the tangled and unnatural histories of extinction and empire, and how extinction is not necessarily inevitable but instead, is a political choice. One of the most famous and ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

Today there are more than 8 billion humans on Earth. But according to a recent genetic study, there may have been a moment in our past when the entire human population dropped to just 1,280 adults.

After 225 years extinct, scientists have sequenced DNA and edited cells to move the bluebuck closer to a return.