Scientists believed that Neanderthals’ large noses were built to warm cold air, an essential adaptation to the icy landscapes ...

An exceptionally preserved Neanderthal skull suggests that their nasal passages were not specialized cold weather equipment.

Neanderthals were cannibals. Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that ...

On an expedition in the Awash Valley in Ethiopia, two anthropologists uncovered the bones of a 3.2 million-year-old human ...

A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may ...

“It’s probably the most complete human fossil ever discovered,” Costantino Buzi of the University of Perugia told New ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them deal with the cold, but analysis of an ...

Neanderthals, our extinct relatives, were known for their notably larger jaws compared to modern humans. This distinct trait ...

A fossil unearthed on Eastern Europe’s Crimean Peninsula has divulged the strongest genetic clues yet about Neandertals’ long-distance journeys into the heart of Asia. After identifying a bone ...

A question has puzzled paleoanthropologists for decades. Could Neanderthals produce and understand the equivalent of human speech? Were Neanderthals verbally and linguistically capable, just like ...

A new analysis suggests that an older Neanderthal from nearly 50,000 years ago, ended up being deaf and most likely depended on his friends in order to survive, after he had suffered several injuries ...

A roughly 1-million-year-old Chinese hominid skull has long vexed efforts to nail down its evolutionary identity. Fossil comparisons using a new digital reconstruction of this specimen, dubbed the ...