As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we ...

Understanding these evolutionary relationships can help scientists predict which species may become disease carriers in the ...

Fossils of a human ancestor from 773,000 years ago may be near the base of the Homo sapiens lineage, representing a common ...

A team of scientists based in Brazil recently reported that they discovered a new species of Tinamou in the mountains of the ...

Every new extinction ripples out beyond the affected species, from ecosystems to human knowledge across culture, spirituality ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

The Louisville Zoo just welcomed another wild addition.The zoo announced Wednesday the arrival of a 3-year-old female Amur ...

All good things must come to an end. Sadly, Homo sapiens’ time on Earth is no exception. And someone would surely take our place as the dominant species. How could genetic engineering spell out the ...

A seven-million-year-old skull found in Chad sits at the center of a long argument about human origins. The species, ...

The textbook version of human evolution has long held that Homo erectus was the pioneering species to venture beyond Africa's borders around 1.8 million years ago. However, new analysis of five skulls ...

About 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out on a bold quest: to identify and name every living organism on ...

The human brain is a fascinating and complex organ that supports numerous sophisticated behaviors and abilities that are ...