Recent research has unveiled that the pesky subway mosquitoes, often encountered in underground transit systems worldwide, ...

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

Learn more about Epiatheracerium itjilik, the Arctic rhino species that is the northernmost rhino ever found.

It’s hard to picture now, but long before the Sahara became a sea of sand, it was an actual sea—a shallow, tropical lagoon ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans … well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA — about 8% — are the remnants of ancient viruses ...

New research has revealed how more upright limb postures helped ancient reptiles overcome the biomechanical constraints of ...

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

About 250 million years ago, as life was recovering from Earth’s greatest mass extinction, some reptiles began to change ...

New research has uncovered the ancient origins of an urban mosquito species, Culex pipiens form molestus, also known as the ...