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

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 ...

Feedback isn't entirely convinced by a new piece of research that claims by 2339 "there will be no humans", even though the ...

Have you ever wondered what the world would be like if everyone suddenly disappeared? What would happen to all our stuff? What would happen to our houses, our schools, our neighborhoods, our cities?

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

Yes, we might think we’re invincible and capable of doing everything on our own, like John Wayne or James Bond; that is, until we suffer a serious injury or illness, or reach old age. That’s when we ...

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

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

Fossils of hands and feet belonging to an extinct human relative that lived about 1.52 million years ago suggests they were ...