For thousands of years, humans have been conquering the planet. But what would happen to the most important things in the modern world if people suddenly disappeared?

Apr 21, 2009 · Catch up on season 1 of Life After People, only on The HISTORY Channel. Get exclusive videos, pictures, bios and check out more of your favorite moments from seasons past.

Apr 21, 2009 · What if every human being on earth disappeared? This isn’t the story of how we might vanish–it is the story of what happens to the world we leave behind.

Jul 14, 2025 · In a world without humans, water turns from life-giver to destroyer--flooding cities, collapsing dams, and triggering ancient forces long kept at bay.

Mar 5, 2020 · The first humans emerged in Africa around two million years ago, long before the modern humans known as Homo sapiens appeared on the same continent.

Sep 27, 2019 · For roughly 2.5 million years, humans lived on Earth without leaving a written record of their lives—but they left behind other kinds of remains and artifacts.

Jan 9, 2020 · Archaeologists from an older era speculated that the development of hunting was what made early humans, well, human. But new research about the role scavenging played in our history …

Apr 8, 2025 · Roughly 3.5 million years ago, a group of ape-like human ancestors called Australopithecus afarensis left 70 fossilized footprints in the volcanic ash of Laetoli, Tanzania.

Jan 10, 2013 · We can’t make salt in our own bodies, so humans have always had to look to their environments to fill the need.

Dec 2, 2024 · While super-long life spans are rare in the animal world, there are certain species that have won the evolutionary lottery with genes that effectively halt the aging process, and fend off age ...