At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Australia’s First Peoples were more early paleontologists than extinction-driving butchers, a group of scientists argue. For decades, the debate over whether the first humans to inhabit present-day ...

Indigenous Australians may have been fossil collectors, not hunters that drove megafauna to extinction, new research suggests. For more than 40 years, cuts in the lower leg bone of a now-extinct giant ...

Some extinct mammals from Australia's Mammoth Cave included (from left) a giant long-nosed echidna, a short-faced kangaroo, a wombat-like marsupial and a Tasmanian thylacine. - Peter Schouten Recent ...

New research led by UNSW Sydney palaeontologists challenges the idea that indigenous Australians hunted Australia’s megafauna to extinction, suggesting instead they were fossil collectors. Renowned ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...