The Chupa Chups lollipops, whose wrapper was designed by Salvador Dalí, were supposedly presents from South American in-laws. But one lick would give any child a Surrealist experience — they were filled with cocaine. Likewise, no baby was allowed to...

A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much earlier than previously believed, scientists say. The researchers said the fossil found...