A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...

Humans stand apart from many other primates by taking more time to mature, relying on a supportive network during a long period of childhood.

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

For decades, textbooks painted a dramatic picture of early humans as tool-using hunters who rose quickly to the top of the food chain. The tale was that Homo habilis, one of the earliest ...

Howdy, pards! This autumnal week brought a new challenge to last decade's claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after ...

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

Early humans were not the feared masters of the savanna long imagined. On the contrary, some still served as meals for big ...