(THE CONVERSATION) For decades, wildlife conservation policy has aimed to protect endangered species until there are enough individual animals alive that the species won’t go extinct. Then the ...
The fate of humanity might have looked radically different if Ice Age titans like the mammoth and saber-toothed cat had ...
There’s something profoundly different about watching an elephant amble across the savanna versus seeing one pace behind ...
Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...
Bald eagles are another apex predator that have no known natural predators other than humans. They are opportunistic hunters ...
Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...