Lars the reindeer was raised in the house alongside dogs, he clearly thinks he is one Hundreds of residents signed up for ...

Walnut Hills mom accused of kicking children out of house on Christmas Eve ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

Revolutionary fossil evidence from Ethiopia is challenging decades of scientific consensus about human origins. New discoveries suggest that the famous Lucy fossil, long considered a direct ancestor ...

A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

Two researchers argue that humans are suffering from an evolutionary mismatch, leading to chronic stress and other health ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

The United States is in the middle of a storm, the tempest from which it will not emerge until the end of the decade. It’s part of a cycle that has defined the U.S. body politic since the American ...

We are indeed still evolving, though it can be hard to tell because it happens over generations and often involves things you can't see, such as what foods different people are able to digest. When ...

The Conversation/Renaud Joannes-Boyau et al. When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes. But our new study, published in ...

Our hominid ancestors faced a Pleistocene world full of dangers—and apparently one of those dangers was lead poisoning. Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the ...