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Human beings have been at the center of ecological change on Earth for thousands of years. But as history shows, no species ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The long thumb and straight fingers would have allowed Paranthropus boisei to form a powerful grip, similar to how modern humans ...

Mass extinction is not just a theory; Earth has already gone through five of them, including the event about 65 million years ...

Ancient humans crossing the Bering Strait into the Americas carried more than tools and determination—they also carried a genetic legacy from Denisovans, an extinct human relative. A new study reveals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A paper reveals a persuasive case that an extinct human ancestor tried to hibernate. The evidence is from nutritional diseases ...

Human activity may be triggering the greatest extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to scientists. Their study, based on a review of decades of research on ...

(CNN) — 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 ...