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 ...

Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, co-founded the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium to pursue a complete, gapless assembly of a human genome sequence.

Massive animals walked in the area — including mammoths, mastodons, North American camels and huge, 8,000-pound sloths — and where these creatures went, ancient humans followed You can save this ...

North America used to be crawling with giant mammals, from dire wolves to big cats. Horses and camels evolved on the continent while others, like bison, crossed over from Asia. Most of these mammals ...

New research suggests humans lived in South America at the same time as now extinct giant sloths, bolstering evidence that people arrived in the Americas earlier than once thought. Scientists analyzed ...

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 ...

A new species of giant stork that fed off human-like hobbits on a prehistoric Indonesian island is fresh evidence of a topsy-turvy parallel universe that once existed. The previously unknown stork, an ...

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 ...

The giant cave bear has been extinct for 25,000 years. Surprising new research, however, has shown that these titanic animals left a genetic legacy that persists today in brown bears. Researchers ...