Imagine waking up one day to find that every human on Earth has vanished. No warning. No survivors. Cities stand exactly as ...

A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant the 'human age' its own distinct place in Earth's geological timeline after disagreeing over when exactly our era might have begun. After 15 years of ...

All modern humans may descend from a small group of people who survived a catastrophic event just over 70,000 years ago.

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 ...

Last year, hiking in Morocco’s eastern Atlas Mountains, I found an ammonite, a fossil of those spiral-shape cephalopods that to many symbolize paleontology itself. The fossilization process had turned ...

Wandering magnetic fields would have had noticeable effects for humans. Maximilian Schanner (GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany) When we first got together, we wondered whether our ...