This academic has theorized about what would happen if humans became extinct and reveals who our successor would be.

A rare Homo habilis skeleton from Kenya reveals how early humans moved, climbed, and adapted more than two million years ago.

For more than 25 years, humans have lived and worked continuously aboard the International Space Station, conducting research ...

You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

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 ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

If humans were to die out tomorrow, how long would it take for nature to take over and overgrow most traces of our existence? After, like, 10,000 years, would you have to undertake an archaeological ...

Let’s put ICE and, indeed, war itself –the smugly violent certainty of militarism — into the largest perspective possible. I suggest this as the only way to maintain my sanity: ...