A prehistoric adventure about a Cro-Magnon girl adopted by a family of Neanderthals, the film might never have made it to the big screen if it were not for Mark Damon’s Producers Sales Organization ...

Magnons, early European humans, that aren't true. For decades, ideas about how they lived, thought, and interacted have been ...

Discovered by chance off the coast of Marseille in 1985, Cosquer Cave is an exceptional Paleolithic site whose entrance lies ...

Cro Magnon has long been misunderstood, and this breakdown clarifies why the label is outdated and what modern anthropology shows about Europe’s earliest Homo sapiens.

Every human face is unique, allowing us to distinguish between individuals. We know little about how facial features are encoded in our DNA, but we may be able to learn more about how our faces ...

Currently, there are several hypotheses surrounding the disappearance of Neanderthals. While they all have at least some scientific support, researchers can't agree on which—or which combination—is ...

Footprints preserved on ancient dunes show Neanderthals actively navigating, hunting, and living along Portugal’s coastline. Their behavior and diet suggest a far more adaptable and socially complex ...

Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that neanderthals ate each other. Scientists have discovered neanderthal bones that bear the same marks of butchery as ...

Researchers have identified gene-regulatory variants that might have contributed to Neanderthals’ beefy jaws — offering a window on how the human face developed 1. This ‘non-coding’ sequence controls ...

Scientists have long speculated what caused the downfall of the Neanderthals, but a new study suggests they never truly went extinct at all. Scientists in Italy and Switzerland claim the ancient group ...

Exhibition of a diorama about Neanderthals in the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins, American Museum of Natural History. Credit: American Museum of Natural History A new study proposes ...