A metal that still frequently occurs today and is considered dangerous may have had a severely harmful effect on the health ...

Kissing is an ancient trait retained over the course of evolution amongst the large apes, reveal scientists at the University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology.

We all have an idea of the caveman art seen placed onto walls by beings long, long ago, but discoveries in three Spanish ...

Neanderthals, the ancient group of archaic humans didn't experience a 'true extinction', scientists in Italy and Switzerland ...

HORSE CAVE, Ky. – A Horse Cave man is behind bars following a traffic stop. According to a uniform citation, the Greater Hardin County Drug Task Force conducted a traffic stop on Oct. 20 on a vehicle ...

Modern genetic studies show that up to 4% of human DNA comes from Neanderthals—and some of those ancient genes affect how our bodies break down medications today. Researchers have identified variants ...

Neanderthals didn’t just survive Europe’s Ice Age landscapes – they ventured into deep caves and made art. What they left isn’t figurative like the later animal scenes of Homo sapiens. Instead, it is ...

Thanks to social media, ancestral diets are having a moment. Depending on your algorithm, you might have come across content promoting carnivore, caveman, or lion diets. While each has its own rules ...

Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have often been caricatured as the archetypal "cavemen." Questions about their ...

A remarkable yellow crayon unearthed in Crimea, still sharp after more than 40,000 years, indicates that painting lines on objects was part of Neanderthal culture. This discovery is the firmest ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, ...

Researchers identified Neanderthal DNA in a tiny bone fragment from the Starosele site on the Crimean Peninsula. Credit: Emily M. Pigott / CC BY 4.0 Researchers have long worked to understand how ...