Long before factories, mines, and cars filled the air with pollution, our distant ancestors were already living with a silent ...

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

Long before humans built cities or wrote words, our ancestors may have faced a hidden threat that shaped who we became.

UC San Diego researchers found that ancient hominids were widely exposed to lead, potentially hindering brain and language ...

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

A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Lead is often thought of as a modern toxin, but a new study has found that it's been haunting us and our ancestors for almost ...

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

A giant ape known as Gigantopithecus blacki survived for two million years in the dense forests of China, munching on fruits and leaves. A group of Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate to ever ...

October 16, 2025: We added one new Once Human code and verified our list. What are the latest Once Human codes? There are times in all of our gaming lives when we need a little bit of help. Call it a ...

Creating human eggs from adult cells just got one step closer to reality. A technique used in cloning combined with fertilization and a bit of chemical coaxing caused human skin cells to produce eggs ...

A digital reconstruction of a million-year-old skull suggests humans may have diverged from our ancient ancestors 400,000 years earlier than thought and in Asia not Africa, a study said Friday. The ...