A metal that still frequently occurs today and is considered dangerous may have had a severely harmful effect on the health ...

Kissing is an ancient trait retained over the course of evolution amongst the large apes, reveal scientists at the University of Oxford and Florida Institute of Technology.

Neanderthals, the ancient group of archaic humans didn't experience a 'true extinction', scientists in Italy and Switzerland ...

Thanks to social media, ancestral diets are having a moment. Depending on your algorithm, you might have come across content promoting carnivore, caveman, or lion diets. While each has its own rules ...

Neanderthals inhabited western Eurasia from about 400,000 years ago until their extinction about 40,000 years ago and have often been caricatured as the archetypal "cavemen." Questions about their ...

In their new study an international team led by the University of Vienna reports the discovery and extraction of ancient DNA from a tiny 5 cm long Neanderthal bone found in the Crimean peninsula, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...

In my previous column, I mentioned how I was going to unplug for a weekend vacation. But just because I unplugged doesn’t mean I wasn’t going to game in some form. In this case, my editor rented a ...

Neanderthals were long stereotyped as primitive and dim-witted, but science has corrected that misconception, showing them as intelligent, cultural and connected to modern humans. This illustrates how ...

It’s the Kingdom of the calcite skull. A horned hominid skull might sound like something out of Greek mythology, but it actually could be a separate species of human ancestor that lived alongside ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...