Protesters outside OpenAI offices in San Francisco were sounding the alarm about AI posing "an existential threat to humanity ...

Sloth size and habitat shifted multiple times over the past 35 million years, but human hunting likely drove the slower, ...

Researchers have recovered Homo erectus bones from the seafloor, which points to an unknown hominin population hunting on ...

A new study, published on May 21 in the journal Nature, has revealed surprising information about the origins of human teeth.

"Dire wolves" created by Colossal Biosciences were pegged as "the first animals in history to be brought back from extinction ...

Most people don't really like mosquitoes and probably wouldn't mind if they all went extinct. But if that did happen, what ...

The United Nations human rights office in Colombia says that five Indigenous groups in northern Colombia’s storied mountain ...

Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA and compared more than 400 fossils from 17 natural history museums to figure out how and why extinct sloths got so big.

Neil and Sophie talk about gene editing, designer babies and how many errors Neil might have in his genetic code.

These human ancestors would have had plenty to take advantage of near these ancient rivers. Trees bore fruit all year, and ...

Bone fragments from Homo erectus have emerged that shed new light on humans' ancestry in Southeast Asia from the last Ice Age ...

JAVA, INDONESIA—Homo erectus, modern humans' archaic hominin relative, was the first human species to migrate out of Africa.One of the places they eventually settled was in Southeast Asia, as H ...