Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ...

What we eat helps shape who we are. That’s why paleoanthropologists are so fascinated by ancient diets; they hold clues to ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.

New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

Images released ahead of a new BBC science series depict Homo floresiensis, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis plus the ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

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A team of archaeologists has announced a major finding relating to the Neanderthals. They announced the finding in the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a multifunctional tool made from cave lion bone, highlighting Neanderthal ingenuity.

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Researchers determined that a skull of a female child from Skhūl Cave in Israel shows both Homo sapiens and Neanderthal ...