Maybe it was a nuclear war, devastating climate change, or a killer virus. But if something caused people to disappear, ...

Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

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The fate of humanity might have looked radically different if Ice Age titans like the mammoth and saber-toothed cat had survived. Imagine a world where the megafauna of the Ice Age survived, not just ...

A latest study utilizing advanced spatial modeling has revealed that neither climate change nor direct competition with early modern humans can fully explain the disappearance of Neanderthals from ...

Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously compromised by human activity. That is the view of an international team of 18 ...

Humans already intervene in nature through land use, climate impacts, and species management. The harder question is when intervention is responsible. Colossal frames de-extinction as a conservation ...

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