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 ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

Shane meets species on the brink of oblivion, and the people who won’t let them slip away. From fossils entombed in tar to cells frozen in hope, Shane Campbell-Staton traces the arc of extinction from ...

Human beings are steadily heading towards extinction and may “already be a dead species walking”, according to a scientist. Writing an opinion piece in Scientific American, palaeontologist and editor ...

Humans already intervene in nature through land use, climate impacts, and species management. The harder question is when intervention is responsible. Colossal frames de-extinction as a conservation ...

Tiny mammals and a group of lizard-like reptiles shared a trait that helped them survive extinction. 66 million years ago, after an asteroid slammed into the Earth and wiped out the non-avian ...