When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

For decades, Paranthropus boisei, an early hominin that roamed eastern Africa a million years ago, was known for its gigantic ...

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

Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

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 ...

Hand fossils confirmed to belong to Paranthropus boisei species show that it had manual dexterity advanced enough to grasp ...

Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not ...

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

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

Uranium dating places the age of the Petralona skull at 300,000 years, revealing a human lineage distinct from Neanderthals ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400 000 ...