Research reveals early humans weren’t meat-heavy eaters. Despite what social media trends claim, our ancestors relied heavily ...

Scientists reckon that DNA from the remains of 40,000-year-old skeletons could be used to create a modern-day caveman. By extracting a complete Neanderthal genome from fragments of bone, boffins say ...

Researchers analyzed a skull that was found at a 140,000-year-old burial site and concluded that the child it belonged to had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics. However, ...

In a new study published in the journal l'Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known example of human interbreeding with Neanderthals. It offers stunning new insight into the ancient ...

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Neanderthals were long stereotyped as primitive and dim-witted, but science has corrected that misconception, showing them as intelligent, cultural and connected to modern humans. This illustrates how ...

The bones were discovered at two caves in the 1990s, but scientists recently revisited them to take a closer look at the cut marks. Anaëlle Jallon Neanderthals living at caves less than 45 miles apart ...

Neanderthals living just 70 kilometers apart in Israel may have had different food prep customs, according to new research on butchered animal bones. These subtle variations — like how meat was cut ...

Sixty thousand years ago, two groups of Neanderthals lived just a stone’s throw apart in what’s now northern Israel. But they had very different cultures when it came to food, according to a recent ...

The discovery rewrites the history of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals. In a new study published in the journal l’Anthropologie, scientists have identified the earliest-known ...