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 ...

Scientists say they now know why and when Gigantopithecus blacki disappeared, over the course of nearly a decade, a team of Chinese and Australian scientists took sediment samples from 22 caves over a ...

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