A major fossil discovery about our ancient ancestor has occurred in Kenya. Researchers have found hand and foot bones ...

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

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use—people cleaning their ...

A million-year-old skull from China, Yunxian 2, reshapes our understanding of human origins and ancient human relatives.

During a remarkably warm period 400,000 years ago, early humans living near what is now Rome regularly butchered massive straight-tusked elephants, using both their meat and bones as vital resources ...

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

Researchers digitally reconstructed a crushed skull and concluded our species is 1 million years old, igniting a debate over ...

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

(Reuters) -In 1990, an ancient human skull was unearthed in China's Hubei Province that was so badly deformed during fossilization that it was hard to gauge its significance. A new analysis now ...