At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Modern human beings are the ultimate apex species, exerting dominance over our environment in a way that no other animal ever has. However, the other members of our species' lineage weren't nearly as ...

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 ...