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

Individual studies by researchers at Stanford University have estimated that humankind had plummeted to just 2,000 people worldwide 70,000 years ago and was about to disappear. What happened 70,000 ...

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...

Within the vastness of the Universe, humanity is not that big of a deal. We're not here because we're meant to be here, we're just... here. If mathematical predictions are correct, we might only have ...

With eight billion people now walking the Earth, the thought of humans going extinct anytime soon seems rather unlikely. Barring nuclear annihilation, being overrun by artificial intelligence or a ...

The book opens with a stark declaration: “We are bound for extinction.” Just as dinosaurs vanished from Earth, humanity will meet the same fate. While this may seem an absurd leap in an era of 8.2 ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, the first wave of a worldwide tsunami now known as the “Sixth Extinction” swept across the ...

After more than 100 years debate, scientists claim they know why the large ancient animals known as megafauna became extinct in south-east South Australia. A study published in an international ...

Humans are killing off species thousands of times faster than nature creates them, new research finds. The modern rate of extinction across species is 1,000 times that of the background rate before ...