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

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

Sea anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they're hiding an ancient body 'blueprint' – one that most animals, including humans, still follow. The discovery could shake up the timeline ...

An international study changes the view that exposure to the toxic metal lead is largely a post-industrial phenomenon. The ...

Lead poisoning isn't just a modern phenomenon: fossil teeth show signs that it affected ancient hominids, and Homo sapiens ...

Join us as we try to figure out how our body parts got their names. Body parts would probably have been one of the first things that ancient peoples gave names to, so not only do we find hundreds of ...

Archaeologists have used new high-resolution digital imaging to study tattoos on a 2,300-year-old “ice mummy” from Siberia’s Pazyryk culture. The technology allowed them to move beyond old drawings ...

Scientists have uncovered remarkable details about the gut microbiome of a man who lived in Mexico around 1,000 years ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...