At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

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 ...

The curious minds at What If investigate the consequences if humans suddenly went extinct, revealing how the planet and ...

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Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was discovered much farther north than previously thought possible, revealing new ...