For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

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

An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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

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 ...

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 ...

A meme-maker who was prosecuted by the Biden administration for memes he posted online in 2016 has had his conviction ...