Understanding what the environment looked like millions of years ago is essential for piecing together how our earliest ...

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

Archaeologists uncovered teeth from an ancient human ancestor in Ethiopia's Afar Region. - Amy Rector/Virginia Commonwealth University Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long ...

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

The fossils indicate that P. boisei ’s human-like hand proportions would have allowed it to handle stone tools with dexterity ...

Footage shows how researchers discovers fossil human footprints embedded in an ancient lakebed that show humans inhabited ...

Lead is a powerful neurotoxin that disrupts the growth and function of both brain and body. There is no safe level of lead exposure, and even the smallest traces can impair memory, learning and ...

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

(CNN) — Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same ...