Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

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

Learn about the overlap between archaic humans that once lived on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and the modern humans ...

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 ...

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian ...

Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist. Writing an opinion piece in Scientific American, palaeontologist and editor ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

Discover evidence of ancient hominins coexisting with early humans in Indonesia 200,000 years ago. A groundbreaking find for ...

A 26-ft (8-m) deep excavation in Indonesia has revealed that humans and a hominin species that pre-dates humans used the same ...

Remains found at the Nesher Ramla settlement in Israel reveal that archaic humans hunted wild cattle 120,000 years ago.

Evidence that modern humans and an older hominin species used the same cave, probably during overlapping periods, has been ...