Even though humans are the only remaining hominin species on the planet, our family tree is actually more complicated than you may realize.

"The only other times the mass extinction levels have reached where they are now are following massive global natural disasters," Tim Newcomb explained in Popular Mechanics. Human activities are ...

They behave like humans in so many ways that it's easy to imagine them assuming our position of dominance in the world if we go extinct. Chimpanzees and other primates could potentially take over ...

Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

let alone an extinction caused by humans. Most people presumed God could create animals at will. After the dodos vanished, many thought that their disappearance was a divine message aimed at humans.

Researchers used a novel method of radiocarbon dating to figure out the age of the Lapedo child, who had both Neanderthal and ...

Denisovan - an extinct human relative of both Neanderthals and modern humans that lived across Asia. They are named after Denisova Cave in Russia, where the first finger bone was found.

Their biggest threat: humans. No trace of the wild South China ... they could become the fourth subspecies of tiger to go extinct. The large yellow-footed tortoise, Chelonoidis denticulata ...

The current extinction crisis is entirely of our own making. More than a century of habitat destruction, pollution, the spread of invasive species, overharvest from the wild, climate change, ...

Even before linkurl:__Jurassic Park__;http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107290/ brought dinosaurs to cinematic life, the ancient reptiles were fascinating to most people ...