A Crash Course In Human Evolution With Anthropologist Chris Stringer' What was the timeline of human evolution? What was our ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

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

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

On Valentine’s Day in 2018, a team of scientists walked across a flat expanse in the badlands of northeastern Ethiopia, scanning the ground for fossils. An eagle-eyed field assistant, Omar Abdulla, ...

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

A recent archaeological discovery in China is shaking the foundations of human history, challenging long-held beliefs about ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibers, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks” ...

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

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

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 ...

If we look across the whole of the mammal branch of the tree of life, we find there are many groups of mammals that have ...