Archaeologists in southern Spain discovered nearly 300,000-year-old footprints preserved in ancient mudflats. These imprints, ...

Deep in the Denisova Cave of Siberia, scientists uncovered a single finger bone that rewrote human history. Genetic testing ...

She was a Muslim missionary by 13 and a creationist determined to disprove Darwin at 18. So how did she become TV's favourite ...

Two weeks before his final concert in his hometown of Birmingham, England, Ozzy Osbourne leaned his chin atop his cane and said to his beloved wife, Sharon: "After this gig, I'm looking forward to ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ evolutionary history.

We think of lead poisoning as just damaging, but a new study suggests that periodic lead exposure might have given our ancient ancestors an advantage over Neanderthals. Researchers analyzed 51 ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s media regulator sanctioned the BBC on Friday for a “materially misleading” documentary on the lives of children in Gaza because it failed to disclose that the father of the ...

Lead is often thought of as a modern toxin, but a new study has found that it's been haunting us and our ancestors for almost 2 million years. Stranger still, exposure could actually have given humans ...

Director James Cameron‘s painstaking process to bring “Avatar” to the big screen will be the subject of a new documentary. “Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films” will premiere Nov. 7 exclusively on ...

You looked at a book discussing Neanderthals’ extinction at a time when a separate species, Homo sapiens, moved into their areas. Both populations were distinct prior to interbreeding, and today a ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT In the best scene of John Candy's best movie, "Planes, Trains & Automobiles," Steve Martin's Neal Page berates Candy's Del Griffith, exasperated by their pre-Thanksgiving travel ordeal ...