Traces of the unknown new genome were detected in two teeth and a finger bone of a Denisovan, which was discovered in a Siberian cave. There is not much data available about the appearance of ...

(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.

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

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

A crushed ancient skull may hold clues to the origins of ancient humans. Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human relative could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, ...

Lead poisoning isn’t just an industrial-age problem. A new study reveals our ancestors, including Neanderthals, were exposed ...

Learn more about the human tailbone and how, even though we may not have a strict need for it anymore, it still helps us with ...

The discovery of chemical signatures of lead in hominid fossils challenges our understanding of ancient environmental ...

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

A mitochondrial DNA study points to at least two waves of migration linking the Americas, China, and Japan- one during the ...