They came up a little short. A small archaic hominid known as the “hobbit” might have died out around 50,000 years ago after declining rainfall levels forced them to compete with modern humans, among ...

Extinction is the irreversible loss of animal species that once lived on our planet. The rapid pace of human-driven habitat destruction, climate change, pollution, and poaching has led to the ...

The human evolutionary tree can be complicated—but understanding where hominids end and hominins begin reveals how we fit into the broader family of primates. This episode breaks down the distinctions ...