In a distant future, Earth may no longer be under the dominion of humanity. Picture a planet devoid of bustling cities and ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

In many countries, women are having fewer babies than their previous generations. As birth rates fall, how long will it take ...

Humans have been around on Earth for thousands of years, but there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out of ...

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

The Denisovans, together with the Neanderthals, are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. It wasn't until 2010 that scientists announced that the Denisovans existed, so much about them ...

Imagine a world without bustling cities and infrastructure and nature regaining control slowly. Scientists believe that the ...

In 2010, scientists found the first evidence of another hominin subspecies, known as the Danisovans. Now, they’ve identified ...

Humans have inhabited all corners of the world today. But there was a period when humanity was almost wiped out from the face ...

It's likely that there would not be many people left within 70 or 80 years, rather than 100, due to shortages of food, clean ...