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

Lead exposure remains a public health issue around the world, even after decades of remediation efforts. According to the ...

Hominids experienced lead exposure as far back as 2-million years ago, new research finds, challenging the theory that the ...

The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by a lone fossil specimen that scientists now say represents a long-extinct ancestor. The ...

A simple change in species composition can impact the course of evolution: A research team from the University of Bern and ...

The $148,000 award supports collaborative research and community outreach on Pennsylvania’s Devonian fossil record.

One hundred years ago, a substitute teacher in Dayton, Tenn., was charged with the crime of teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. His name was John Scopes. At the time, ...

A remarkable 151-million-year-old fly fossil found in China is changing our view of insect evolution. This ancient insect, ...

I'm a Lego expert and I love the Lego Ideas Evolution of STEM set. Could it be the best science-themed set ever, despite some ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...

Hamilton's rule, introduced in the 1960s, says that altruism—helping others at your own expense—can evolve when the benefits to others, multiplied by how closely related they are to you, outweigh the ...

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently published a religion and science addition to its Topics and Questions series addressing four subjects: the general compatibility of science and ...