Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, ...

"The pace of change we’re seeing today is unlike anything we know of in the past 66 million years," said ecologist Jack Hatfield.

Study warns that humans may be driving Earth toward a sixth mass extinction. The research shows species loss, but the future ...

Scientists debate whether current extinction rates mark a planet-wide crisis or reflect a more nuanced reality, highlighting ...

Scientists warn that the planet is entering its sixth mass extinction, a crisis driven by deforestation, pollution, and the rapid disappearance of species at rates unseen since the age of dinosaurs.

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from ...

New technology has shown the incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo were in fact made after the bone was ...

Incision marks likely made by humans on the fossilised bone of an ancient kangaroo challenges the ‘humans wiped out ...

In the grand story of evolution, the crowning human distinction is our big brain. But our large heads have been slow to ...

An ancient aquatic species that's been around for 450 million years is facing extinction as a series of factors work against ...

The center-right party that governed the U.K. for more than 60 of the last 100 years before being ousted in 2024 is embracing Donald Trump -style policies, including mass deportations.