As a kid, it was tough for me to grasp the massive time scale of Earth's history. Now, with nearly two decades of experience ...
43,119 years ago: The Neanderthals go extinct. Multiple factors cause their demise, including violence, diseases, natural catastrophes and being outcompeted by Homo sapiens, the only remaining hominid ...
Neanderthals went extinct roughly 39,000 years ago, but in some sense these close cousins of our species are not gone. Their ...