Neanderthals are basically cousins to modern homo sapiens, evolutionarily speaking. Despite that fact, however, most people ...

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Learn how these Neanderthal findings shaped what we know about Neanderthals and how our ancient human past is intertwined.

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Researchers believe marine fossils were deliberately collected by Neanderthals, despite holding no practical value.

Much remains a mystery about the Neanderthals' demise roughly 40,000 years ago. But a DNA analysis of a Neanderthal known as Thorin, nicknamed after a dwarf in "The Hobbit" by J. R. R. Tolkien ...

THE important discoveries in the domain of human palaeontology which have been made in recent years, and those, far greater in number, which may be referred to the Neolithic period, have now made ...

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Scientists have long agreed that early humans mated with Neanderthals, but a pair of recent studies have shed light on when exactly this DNA mixing occurred. Such a revelation could help ...

The 35,000-year-old rock was found in Manot Cave, which was inhabited by both prehistoric humans and Neanderthals Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent The carved boulder, which weighs about 60 ...

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

Previous reconstructions of Neanderthal ribcages, such as Kebara 2 from Kebara Cave in Israel, have also relied on relatively intact remains. In the study, titled "Shanidar 3 'rings the bell ...