Well, humans will go extinct. And there’s a popular but controversial mathematical theory that suggests we’re closer to the ...

A decades-old statistical theory claiming humanity could face extinction sooner than expected has resurfaced, sparking fresh ...

A common midwife toad in the Pyrenees, carrying his developing offspring. (Phillip Jervis) Across the world, entire species ...

So, by that standard, could a similar fate await humanity in the not-so-distant future? Well, as the saying goes, all good ...

The first people to inhabit the Americas had a singular obsession: the biggest animals on the landscape. A July 2026 study in ...

Government scientists say the razorback sucker, a freshwater fish native to the Colorado River, has begun to recover.

Brendan Bordelon is POLITICO’s AI and tech influence reporter. Gabby Miller is an AI and tech congressional reporter at ...

With no breakfast, second breakfast, elevenses, or afternoon tea to keep them going, the legendary "hobbits" of Indonesia may have starved to death around 61,000 years ago. Otherwise known as Homo ...

A statistical theory called the doomsday argument is circulating online again. This theory uses probability to estimate ...

Life has colonised every corner of the planet by evolving ingenious survival strategies but these are increasingly being ...

And it reveals a big problem with the nation’s approach to saving endangered species.

As alligator attacks grab headlines, researchers caution they are minimal compared to the number of people in Florida ...