M odern humans ( Homo sapiens) are the sole surviving representatives of the human family tree, but we're the last sentence ...

Cowbird mothers abandon their eggs in the nests of other bird species, but the chicks somehow manage to find their flock and ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

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 ...

As for the other human species, Stringer said: “We don’t know why the Denisovans died out, but we know that within a few thousand years of Homo sapiens getting to that region of Siberia, they ...

Humans are driving migratory animals—sea turtles, chimpanzees, lions, and penguins, among dozens of other species—towards extinction, according to the most comprehensive assessment of ...

Our species is nothing if not prolific. The world’s human population is expected to reach 8 billion this month and increase to 10 billion over the next 60 years, according to demographers at the ...

Ancient footprints discovered in Kenya belong to two different species of human relatives who walked on the same ground at the same time 1.5 million years ago, a study found.

Many decades of research have revealed, however, that a number of other species of animals also have culture, notably other primates and corvids (crows). Nevertheless, human culture is clearly ...