Our preconceptions are often challenged when we engage with people cross-culturally. What might we discover if we turn that ...

Humans and our ancestors have been exposed to lead for 2 million years, but the toxic metal may have actually helped our ...

When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals interbred with human ancestors ...

Imagine Europe tens of thousands of years ago: dense forests, large herds of elephants, bison and aurochs—and small groups of ...

They detected clear chemical signatures in these remains, which indicated that lead exposure for these species dated back to ...

Neanderthals were meat eaters, but new analyses show that their diets included other morsels. Neanderthals, our extinct ...

Here’s something to shut you off in mid-scroll: deliberate cave paintings in France have just been dated back at least 57,000 ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei.

I’ve been doing this for quite a long time and this is one of the most atrocious fact situations involving domestic violence ...

Small, fragmented Neanderthal groups would have been especially vulnerable to a slight drop in the number of successful ...

The Cow Race Grand Prix in Switzerland, Halloween preparations in Germany, observations of International Sloth Day in Panama ...

Excavated with colonial labor and shipped to the Netherlands, the famous fossil is being repatriated to Indonesia along with ...