A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

Neanderthal vs. Cro-Magnon Cheat Sheet Neanderthals: Our Cold-Adapted Cousins Fossils of this species of prehistoric human ...

The bony labyrinth was also compared to a number of archaic hominins, including Neanderthals from France and an early band of Homo sapiens known as Cro-Magnon. Overall, this key feature of the ...

In 2018, scientists reconstructed a full-body model of a Neanderthal (based on 40,000-year-old bones found in Belgium) and Cro-Magnon, or an early modern human, species. And in 2017, scientists ...

More information: Moojune Song et al, Single-shot magnon interference in a magnon-superconducting-resonator hybrid circuit, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58482-2 ...

Oldest known human fingerprint discovered on ancient Neanderthal artwork by David Álvarez Alonso, Andrés Díez Herrero, María de Andrés-Herrero, Miguel Angel Mate Gonzalez, The Conversation ...

And this isn’t the first time Neanderthal genetic variants have been identified as a considerable risk factor for a disease: In 2020, Zeberg co-authored a groundbreaking study in the journal ...

With minimal Neanderthal archaeological sites connecting Eastern Europe and Eurasia, it had long been a mystery as to how Neanderthals traveled between the two regions between 120,000 years and 60,000 ...

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 ...

Neanderthals went extinct about 40,000 years ago but also interbred with early modern humans. Most people outside of Africa have some Neanderthal DNA.

This find, as well as the distinctive Neanderthal tools found throughout the cave, identify the art as Neanderthal in nature. Image source: Marquet J-C, Freiesleben TH, Thomsen KJ, Murray AS ...

The Denisovans, together with the Neanderthals, are the closest extinct relatives of modern humans. It wasn't until 2010 that scientists announced that the Denisovans existed, so much about them ...