Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California ...

As Humanity moves into the future, traveling to other worlds and exploring genetics, AI, transhumanism, and cybernetics, we may begin to diverge into a thousand post-human species.

The Denisovans are the first species of archaic humans that have been discovered based on their DNA. Were they a race of ...

A 1.4 million-year-old fossil jaw belongs to a previously unknown human relative from southern Africa, a new study finds.

When Homo sapiens appeared some 300,000 years ago, at least six other human species already shared the planet. Here, in the studio of paleoartist John Gurche, are model representations of those ...

Researchers discovered how genetic switches shaped human brain evolution by fine-tuning shared gene expression.

What species will become the next rulers of Earth when humans are no longer dominant? Which creatures might inherit the throne?

Remarkable social behaviors have been discovered in Kinda baboons (Papio kindae) that set them apart from other baboon ...