Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The identity of the cannibals remains unknown, but scientists say it may have been early Homo sapiens preying on rival ...

Early humans may have feasted on Neanderthal children 45,000 years ago, according to a grisly new study.

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

Neanderthals have fascinated scientists since they were first discovered in the 19th century. Their long heads and low brow ...

Homo sapiens was basically infected by these viruses for all of its existence," the scientist added. As per the outlet, ...

Simulations suggest Neanderthals were on the brink of extinction by the time our ancestors arrived on the Iberian Peninsula.

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...