Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

When scientists found the skull, named Yunxian 2, they assumed it belonged to an earlier ancestor of ours, Homo erectus, the ...

From being branded as primitive brutes to misunderstood geniuses, Neanderthals have long been misrepresented. Fossil and ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A new scientific review tackles an age-old question: could dogs ever learn to talk? While barking out full sentences might ...

A new discovery by our team, published in the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, shows the start of this process dates back more ...

Scientists tested two species against each other to see which was more likely to fall for an optical illusion.