Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists found this piece ...

New fossil research shows how human impacts, particularly through the rise of agriculture and livestock, have disrupted natural mammal communities as profoundly as the Ice Age extinctions. Subscribe ...

“Everyone knows that the woolly mammoth went extinct, but virtually no-one mentions the plants that were lost at the end of the last ice age,” says Prof Ulrike Herzschuh from the Alfred Wegener ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research finds shocked quartz at key sites, strengthening the case for a comet airburst during Ice Age extinctions. (CREDIT: ...

Correction (December 18th 2024): A previous version of this article incorrectly listed David Attenborough as a founder of the Earthshot Prize. This has been corrected. The long-nosed saiga antelope, a ...