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 ...

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 ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

A new study links climate stress to the disappearance of the early human species Homo floresiensis, known as the “hobbits” of ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

(CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

(Phys.org)—Homer's great masterpieces, The Iliad and The Odyssey, have been dated to around 762 BCE by new research based on the statistical modelling of language evolution.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. In today’s column, I examine the widely debated and quite ...