The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

New research finds extinction rates have been declining for a century, challenging assumptions of an ongoing mass extinction.

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Are humans the only species to drive another to extinction? Tom Ruppel | Dixon, California Human activities are the most prominent cause of species extinction today, but not the only one. A recent ...

Pandemics and nuclear war are real, tangible concerns, more so than AI doom, at least to me, a scientist at the RAND Corporation. We do all kinds of research on national security issues and might be ...

According to a recent study by archaeologists, it has been found that the early humans, who occupied the Indonesian island of Flores, were obliterated by climate change. The study was published ...

Researchers found that early human ancestors almost became extinct a million years ago, with a massive drop in population. With only a thousand surviving people, the population stayed at a low rate ...

Extinction troubled us long before we had a name for it. The original mascot for the loss of species, even before the concept was understood, was the dodo. The bird — fat and flightless, found by 17th ...