Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... that killed the dinosaurs and squeaked past a marine extinction two million years ago that cut their numbers ...

How did PFAS – known as ‘forever chemicals’ – manage to infiltrate global water sources so extensively before anyone realised ...

The popularity of HowStuffWorks led Brain to help create two television programs for the National Geographic channel about the mass ... in a way so that we don't kill ourselves or cause a mass ...

Biodiversity is declining across the planet, but what about in Wisconsin, how do we measure it, and how can we stop it?

Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles in a bid to save their species from extinction have “given birth” to ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. It is a horror movie director’s dream of a natural history collection. You find it by driving 10 miles southeast of ...

A new study has estimated it would cost $15.6 billion per year for 30 years to prevent extinction for 99 of Australia's priority species. The research highlights the urgent need for increased funding ...

Mass extinctions are very important to how life evolved on Earth. For example, when an asteroid hit the Earth 66 million years ago, the resulting dinosaur extinction led mammals to... Researchers ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

Ten new species, including nine animals and one plant, have been listed as "staring extinction in the face," according to the UK-based international conservation group. Leptodactylus fallax ...