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

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

Most of the world has entered the final stretch of 2025. But there is one country still living in the year 2017. This is not ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

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

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

The first almost complete set of hand bones from the ancient human relative Paranthropus boisei has been found, revealing a ...

First discovered in 1997, Karahan Tepe is a sprawling 12,000-year-old site where rows of stone pillars are carved with ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

The authors of a study of the specimen conclude the elephant was butchered using small stones, as indicated by both the ...

New research indicates the skull, which is between 940,000 and 1.1 million years old, belongs to an early branch of a sister ...

Archaeologists in Kenya have uncovered Oldowan stone tools that push the technology’s origins back toward the 3-million-year mark, and they were found beside fossils from ...