Scientists have uncovered a mysterious relic from an area of the moon that has never been explored by humans until now.

This once-thriving mining town was mostly abandoned after a coal seam fire ignited beneath it in 1962 and continues to burn ...

New fossil evidence from Ethiopia’s Afar region reveals that early humans evolved nearly two million years ago, hundreds of ...

When we think of lead poisoning, most of us imagine modern human-made pollution, paint, old pipes, or exhaust fumes.

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

Lead exposure sounds like a modern problem, at least if you define “modern” the way a paleoanthropologist might: a time that ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a lost land bridge in Turkey, potentially reshaping the history of human migration and ...

Discovered in modern-day Turkey at the Karahantepe site, it could be the first-ever carved depiction of a human face.

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further ...

For a long time, scientists thought that early humans arrived in Europe primarily by traveling north into the Balkans or eastward from the Levant. However, a new find in the Ayvalık region of western ...