(NewsNation) — A small, now-extinct species of prehistoric human known as the “hobbits” may have had even more diminutive ancestors, according to a new study published in the science journal Nature on ...

Despite their miniature brains, the ancient "Hobbits" do appear to have made stone tools. Utensils produced by the ...

Or maybe they interbreed with other species — like humans did with neanderthals. Or they could die out completely, like our ...

We break down some common myths about our early human ancestors—and what makes our species, ‘Homo sapiens,’ so different from ...

Over the last month, Lisa Desjardins and Deema Zein have been counting down to November 5 with Election Day facts Well, it's been a long road to this Election Day, and our incredible digital team ...

Early Homo sapiens and their Neanderthal cousins started burying their dead around the same time and roughly the same place, some 120,000 years ago. This suggests the two species may have had, at ...

Today's apples don't grow on towering trees, could have been picked in 2023, and taste way different than they used to. And that's just the beginning of the surprising modern reality of a ...

CLIMATEWIRE | More than a third of the world’s tree species are at risk of extinction, according to findings by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The group said that its first ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's gold in central New York. The new species, Lomankus edgecombei ...

Pixabay Trees are in trouble: More than one-third of known species around the globe are at risk of disappearing, according to a new assessment. On Monday, the International Union for Conservation ...

More than a third of all tree species worldwide face extinction, threatening ecosystems, plants, animals and economies around the world, experts warned Monday. In all, 38% of trees are at risk ...