A new study suggests preeclampsia, a deadly pregnancy disorder, may have contributed to Neanderthal extinction.

Discover the latest news, features and articles about who Neanderthals were, whether they mated with modern humans and when they died out.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true ...

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 ...

A major milestone has been reached, with experts across Europe, including those at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, sequencing 1,000 species of butterflies and moths. This includes ...

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 ...

Shocking research has warned that humans are driving extinctions at a scale not seen since the mass extinction of the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago. The researchers from the University of York, ...