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 ...

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 ...

The Neumark-Nord site, discovered back in the 1980s, covers roughly 70 acres. In this region, Neanderthals hunted and ...

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 ...

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

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.