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

The Neumark-Nord site, discovered back in the 1980s, covers roughly 70 acres. In this region, Neanderthals hunted and ...

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered astounding evidence of a 125,000-year-old "fat factory" run by Neanderthals. A new ...

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

A new study shows evidence of Neanderthal “fat factories” dating back as far as 125,000 years ago. The study found ...

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

Remarkably, in all cases the subject’s hearing improved, with effects taking hold within a month and an average improvement ...

However, Neanderthals took this process even one step further by creating sophisticated fat-rendering “factories” 125,000 years ago, according to a statement released by Leiden University.

Stone Age humans living by a lake in what’s now Germany systematically processed animal carcasses for fatty nutrients — essentially running what scientists describe as a “fat factory ...

Inside a 1,25,000-year-old Neanderthal ‘fat factory’ in Germany, scientists find clues to survival Researchers believe the Neanderthals crushed bones rich in marrow using stone tools and then boiled ...