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

Once depicted as barbaric, grunting, sub-humans, Neanderthals are now known to have had the same or similar levels of intelligence as modern humans. They also had their own distinct culture. Here we ...

It’s a somewhat uncomfortable reality that Homo sapiens interbred with their closest relatives, the "sister species" ...

A small blood gene difference made Neanderthal pregnancies with modern humans risky, possibly contributing to their disappearance.

"We found clear signals of episodic lead exposure in 73 percent of the specimens (71 percent for hominins Australopithecus, ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

In a story from March, how mental health information on social media can be both revelatory and misleading—and how we can make sense of it. In a story from March, researchers used drones to study the ...

Researchers have virtually reconstructed a crushed and distorted 1 million-year-old human skull discovered in China. The newly restored cranium may have belonged to a relative of the mysterious ...

Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals and how they helped make us who we are today.

Archaeologists in Ukraine discovered circular dwellings made from mammoth bones—built 20,000 years before modern humans ...

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

Digital reconstruction of a crushed skull from an ancient human could rewrite the timeline of human evolution, according to ...