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

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

A portion of an ancient human skull was discovered earlier this year along a riverbank in rural Indiana, local officials ...

Scientists found that one tiny DNA change in the NOVA1 gene helped modern humans resist lead exposure that harmed ...

The Fayette County Coroner’s Office said that a portion of a human skull found on the bank of the Whitewater River is over ...

City of Toronto officials and archeological experts say they're waiting for a provincial go-ahead to start an intricate ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

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

Decades after a skull was unearthed in China’s Hubei Province, researchers said they suspect a much earlier and more complex ...

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

A new look at cuts on a giant kangaroo bone reveal First Peoples as fossil collectors, not hunters who helped drive species extinct, some scientists argue.

At Rome’s Casal Lumbroso site, humans 400,000 years ago turned a dead elephant into food and tools—proof of astonishing ...