Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

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

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

The team looked for an explanation as to why the myth involved a seventh bright star, visible to the naked eye. Running ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, ...

“A bird that has a lifetime of experience with novelty will probably desensitize to a scarecrow faster,” Friedman explains.

It started with her childhood love of animals and all the books she read; and continued with meeting Mary & Dr. Louis Leaky and befriending the chimp at Gombe in Tanzania she named David Greybeard.

Buried for nearly 150,000 years, a skull from China may belong to one of our closest ancient relatives—one we never even knew existed until now.

As evidence of alcohol's harms mounts, some people are testing out sobriety. Look to ancient civilizations' ways for a reset, scholars suggest.

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

Scientists are stunned after a 4,000-year-old skull was discovered in Indiana.

When you go investigating for one discovery and much more is found, it really can feel like valuable treasure.