Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true ...

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The human species is the ultimate apex predator. We have only existed for 0.007% of Earth's history, yet we have managed to single-handedly transform the face of the planet, paving over its fields, ...

Here's a story about something that won't make the news, should it ever happen - a future world in which humans go extinct and another species takes over the earth. Science reporter Flora Lichtman ...