Most closely related to dugongs, it was discovered in 1741 by biologist Georg Wilhelm Steller, after the expedition to North ...

Humans may have caused the mass extinction of species for thousands of years now. And a new World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report says the elimination continues, as humanity has wiped out 60 per of mammals ...

There is a new paper in Current Biology, Genetic Structure and Extinction of the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius. The authors use recovered mitochondrial DNA (passed through the female lineage) ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ...

The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with unexpected dexterity and a gorilla-like grip. The hand bones, which were discovered ...

Species of plants and animals are becoming extinct at least 1,000 times faster than they did before humans arrived on the scene, and the world is on the brink of a sixth great extinction, a new study ...

SCIENTISTS have found new clues about a mysterious ancient human species - indicating they roamed around the earth a million years ago. The species called "Hobbit" was first discovered in 2004 when ...

British and African archaeologists have discovered evidence of the world’s oldest human-built structure, built by an extinct species of humans from half a million years ago. It was unearthed in ...

The larger the marine animal, the chance it has of coming under threat of extinction — and humans are likely to blame, according to a study to be published Friday in the journal Science. Scientists ...

'Hobbits' are thought to have become extinct around the time modern humans arrived SCIENTISTS have found new clues about a mysterious ancient human species – indicating they roamed around the earth a ...