Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California ...

What species will become the next rulers of Earth when humans are no longer dominant? Which creatures might inherit the throne?

Sticks found in a cave that date back 12,000 years and other archaeological evidence show how humans have long viewed the future in a similar way to us, says Annalee Newitz ...

Science tells us invasive species—like the spotted tilapia—are always on the move, making it difficult for scientists to ...

Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases, females possess two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. However, there is some evidence that the Y ...

At the time Paranthropus was alive, the world had several hominins, or species on the evolutionary branch more closely related to humans than to chimps. Our genus, Homo, emerged at least 2.8 ...

The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage ...

Now that there’s baseline data, Lüdecke says future studies could use the same methods on the teeth of other, later human species to see how diets may have changed over millions of years.

Quick and easily adapting plants with traits that humans favored are more likely ... They hope their study will help inform future work to adapt species with the aim of improving our food security ...