Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

From village dogs to toy poodles to mastiffs, dogs come in an astonishing array of shapes, colors and sizes. Today there are ...

Recent analysis has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins of canine diversity, revealing that dogs were already ...

Humans exhibit rapid, intense reactions to snakes and spiders, rooted in ancient survival instincts. Specific visual cues ...

Distinct domestic dog types could have started developing thousands of years before modern breeding, archaeologists find.

Scientists have managed to pinpoint the time dogs began to look significantly different from each other in terms of skull ...

Human babies are born remarkably helpless, a deliberate evolutionary advantage. This early dependence allows for extended brain development outside t ...

“We found that dogs were already remarkably diverse in their skull shapes and sizes more than 11,000 years ago — long before ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

Today, traces of Neanderthal DNA persist in modern humans, particularly those of European and Asian descent. These genetic ...

In fact it may be much older. The molestus mosquito is a variant of Culex pipiens which progressed from feeding on birds to ...

A Kenyan site reveals early humans made and used the same Oldowan stone tools for 300,000 years, showing remarkable stability ...