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

A study of a million-year-old skull from China has potentially rewritten the early chapter of human evolution.

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

A groundbreaking study from the Max Planck Institute reveals that modern humans and Neanderthals had nearly identical brain ...

Neanderthals ruled Ice Age Europe for hundreds of thousands of years before vanishing 35,000 years ago. Did climate change, ...

Research reveals that ancient Homo sapiens and Neanderthals encountered unexpected levels of lead exposure, shaping how our ...

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 ...

A former Florida state biologist is suing the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission for wrongful termination. The employee was fired after reposting a social media message about the ...

A Brief History of Humankind," Homo sapiens is the only animal species that we know about that imagines an afterlife.