Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical traces in fossil teeth. Experiments suggest this exposure may have driven ...

In new research, paleoanthropologists from the United States and Canada analyzed the morphology of a hominin talus (large bone in the ankle that joins with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneus of ...

Archeologists discovered the earliest preserved human genetic material in two million-year-old tooth fossils. The specimen is most likely from the African hominid Paranthropus robustus (P. robustus).

Ancient human relatives were exposed to lead up to two million years ago, according to a new study. However, a gene mutation may have protected modern human brains, allowing language to flourish. UC ...

Richard Wrangham is the retired Ruth B. Moore Research Professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and founded the Kibale Chimpanzee Project in Uganda in ...

On 29 November 2024, the State Party submitted a report on the state of conservation of the property, available at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/915/documents, which ...

Scientists suggest it may be the remains of a prehistoric hominin that walked alongside Neanderthals hundreds of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes In 1960, a villager found something ...

Three dimensional model of 3.2 million-year-old hominid "Lucy" is seen during an opening of an exhibition at the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic, Aug. 25, 2025. Fed Governor Lisa Cook ...