Researchers found that ancient hominids—including early humans—were exposed to lead throughout childhood, leaving chemical ...

Two Australopithecus fossils named Lucy and Selam made a rare trip out of Ethiopia for a 60-day display at the National ...

Almost 100 years before calls to decolonize science, Taung was challenging researchers to reassess their internal biases.

Orrorin tugenensis, discovered in Kenya’s Tugen Hills, walked upright 6 million years ago, long before Homo sapiens evolved. Fossilized femurs reveal that this early hominin balanced between climbing ...

From the first primates 85 million years ago to Homo sapiens 300,000 years ago, our lineage spans countless branches of ...

Experts have been puzzled by recently discovered fossils from the hand of an extinct human relative, Paranthropus boisei. They have been surprised by a mix of human-like and gorilla-like traits in the ...

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