Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever ...

Colonizing Mars might be the best chance to ensure the human species survival in the future. In order to adapt to Mar’s hostile living conditions, our bodies will evolve in ways that might end ...

Human biological sex is determined by the sex chromosomes X and Y. In most cases, females possess two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y. However, there is some evidence that the Y ...

Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

Perhaps future studies into these tools and caves surrounding that same area could teach us more about the extinct human species that once roamed our planet, and further explain the origins of ...

Coulson acknowledges that predicting the future of evolution is nearly ... “Is it likely that octopuses will replace humans as the dominant species? It’s an intriguing possibility, but also ...

These bones, nicknamed Pink (in reference to Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon"), could belong to a little-known or even unknown human species, pushing the boundaries of our understanding ...

Our planet is warming faster than at any time in the past 10,000 years. With these changes, species have to adapt to new climate patterns (variations in rainfall; longer, warmer summers etc). Global ...

The Minnesotan gray wolf has been listed as a threatened, rather than an endangered, species since 1978 — a unique status among the lower 48 states only held by Minnesota until 2011.