"We're building a life that's looking more and more like our stories," he adds. Read More: Thorin the Neanderthal Was One of ...

Paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak, who studies Neanderthals and their possible interactions with Homo sapiens, holds two tools, the smaller belonging to H. sapiens, the other to Neanderthals ...

Boomerangs are some of humanity’s oldest tools. In the northernmost region of Australia, 50,000-year-old cave art appears to ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

Humans are the only animal that lives in virtually every possible environment, from rainforests to deserts to tundra.

Molecular sleuthing has tied the more‑than‑146,000‑year‑old Harbin cranium, known as "Dragon Man," to this hidden branch of humanity.

Neanderthals have long been the subject of intense scientific debate. This is largely because we still lack clear answers to ...

Scientists explore the mystery of Neanderthal extinction. A new theory links their disappearance to the Laschamp event. This ...

Homo sapiens — mingled and interbred with other prehistoric humans: our distant cousins, the Neanderthals and Denisovans.

Could cosmic radiation from a magnetic pole shift explain Neanderthal extinction? A new study from the University of Michigan ...

Yet these primordial grave-diggers weren’t quite like us, and new research reveals that a young child from the world’s oldest ...

The new study, published in Cell by Qiaomei Fu and colleagues, is the first to definitively link a nearly complete human ...