A newly confirmed mass grave in the ancient city of Jerash, Jordan, offers chilling insight into one of history’s first recorded pandemics. Hundreds of plague victims were buried within a matter of ...

Former war correspondent Jonathan Ledgard says enabling wild species to pay for their own conservation can align the ...

More than one million species are now at risk, and many scientists believe Earth has entered a sixth mass extinction. This ...

A new study suggests Neanderthals didn’t go extinct simply because of climate change or competition with Homo sapiens. Instead, the key difference may have been social connectivity—Homo sapiens formed ...

Between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, many of the world's largest mammals disappeared. Picture creatures like saber-toothed ...

Earth's food webs suffer when giant animals go extinct, even 10,000 years later.

Originally published in the April 1981 issue of National Geographic. Dian Fossey reports from the field on the death of Digit ...

A newly discovered prehistoric mammal may hold clues to how life survived the dinosaur-killing extinction. The tiny species, ...

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 ...

Humanity's survival has never been guaranteed. Join us as we count down the most terrifying moments in history when life on Earth came dangerously close to total annihilation! From ancient plagues to ...

Life on Earth is often described as a web, but for much of modern science it was catalogued as a ledger: names, specimens, ...

With only two northern white rhinos left, scientists are using lab-grown embryos in a last-ditch effort to bring the ...