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

The curious minds at What If investigate the consequences if humans suddenly went extinct, revealing how the planet and ...

The curious minds at What If explore what would happen if dinosaurs never went extinct and changed human evolution, imagining ...

Over the last 100,000 years, 64 percent of large animal species have gone extinct. The loss of large animals like mammoths, mastodons and giant ground sloths has been somewhat evenly spread over all ...

Scientists prepared a high-quality sequence of the giant mammal’s genome based on a specimen preserved in Siberian permafrost.

Could Homo sapiens and an archaic and now-extinct species of early human have lived alongside each other on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi more than 65,000 years ago? This is the question posed by ...

FILE - A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the world’s ...

A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., on March 28, 2018. PORTLAND, Maine — One of the world’s rarest whale species is having more babies ...

Due to humanity’s drive for development and growth, we have lost a considerable number of species. One such species is the Xerces Blue butterfly. This butterfly went extinct in the early 1940s and is ...

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And then there were none. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has announced that several species of animals and plants have now gone extinct. The 2025 list of extinctions ...