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

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

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

Stretching from western Anatolia to southeastern Europe, this previously unknown land bridge may have been a migration route ...

Newly discovered African fossils lend a hand to suspicions that an ancient hominid outside our own genus, Homo, made and used stone and bone tools.

After comparing shapes, depths, and pressure patterns, this study found that two different hominin species left footprints in ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

I've spent years testing clunky glasses that don't live up to their promises, but Meta's latest might finally deliver on the ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Poisoning by lead is usually thought of as a disease of relatively modern civilisations. Yet in a paper just published in ...