It may seem like humans are supreme among all of Earth's creatures, but some other species are quite capable of dominating the planet if we were to go extinct.

An Oxford academic has theorized about what might happen if humans were to go extinct and reveals which species could take ...

In “The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire,” Gee examines the many reasons why the human race finds itself in multiple ...

About 2 million years ago, in South Africa, a prehistoric human species, Paranthropus robustus, shared its habitat with Homo ...

So much so that they may be Earth's next big species if ours ends up going the way of the dinosaurs. While an octopus-dominated future may seem "improbable" at the moment, it "wouldn’t be the ...

Dominant species are the most abundant species in a community, exerting a strong influence over the occurrence and distribution of other species. In contrast, keystone species have effects on ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have discovered that what was previously thought to be a unique seaweed species of bladderwrack for the Baltic Sea is in fact a giant clone of common ...

Genetic diversity relates to genetic variation of the number and frequency of alleles of a specific gene, as the image below illustrates. This image demonstrates genetic diversity. The different ...