Extinction rates have slowed across many plant and animal groups, despite claims that the planet is experiencing another ...

Feedback isn't entirely convinced by a new piece of research that claims by 2339 "there will be no humans", even though the ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

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 ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney paleontologists challenges the idea that Indigenous Australians hunted Australia's megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors.

“The extinction of the slender-billed curlew is a tragic and sobering moment for migratory bird conservation," said Amy Fraenkel, executive secretary of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory ...

Indigenous Australians may have been early "paleontologists," not big-game hunters, according to a new analysis ...