Researchers found lead bands in 73 percent of 51 fossilized teeth spanning two million years of hominin history.

Several hominid species were consistently exposed to lead for almost two million years, which may have given modern humans a ...

Lead exposure is not good for us, but thanks to a single gene in our brains, it was apparently even worse for our Neanderthal ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Researchers used sophisticated scanning and digital reconstruction techniques to determine the original shape of the skull, ...

Back in 1929, archaeologists unearthed several human skeletons (seven adults and three children) while excavating Skuhl Cave just south of Haifa, Israel. Dating back 140,000 years to the end of the ...

From left, the Cederberg mountain range in South Africa, the Tenere desert in Niger and savanna in South Africa. (Associated Press photos) WASHINGTON — Humans are the only animal that lives in ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged ...

Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals and how they helped make us who we are today.

Researchers have unearthed near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya fossils of hand and foot bones belonging to an extinct human ...

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...