Ancient humans in Africa changed their behaviour in a major way 70,000 years ago, which could explain how their descendants ...

It’s been some 40,000 years since the last Homo neanderthalensis, or Neanderthals, disappeared from sight. Our closest human relative, the Neanderthal continues to fascinate scientists and the ...

Discover how ancient humans scaled up their food production to survive in harsh environments.

Neanderthals living in what is now Belgium made a kind of prehistoric Swiss Army Knife from the bones of a cave lion some 130 ...

Chimp and Neanderthal faces grow beyond adolescence, which explains their more rugged features. Credit: AI-generated image by ChatGPT 4o. Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...

Archaeologists have found evidence to suggest Neanderthals operated a sophisticated 'fat factory' to extract the fat content ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

An exciting discovery at a German archaeological location has given new insight into the eating habits of our Neanderthal ...

Recent discoveries from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans shared European landscapes ...