Worldwide, the oldest known artifact of this type is a bone knife that was manufactured by modern humans in Morocco around 90,000 years ago. The revelation that Neanderthals were also working with ...

New study uses DNA evidence to challenge claims that humans arrived in Sahul 65,000 years ago, pointing to a later migration ...

Researchers at La Trobe University, Australia, and the University of Utah, U.S., report that recent DNA findings challenge ...

In a stunning new study, geneticists in Japan have revealed how injecting a 40,000-year-old Neanderthal gene into mice has ...

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

If you regularly experience headaches, dizziness, balance problems and blurred vision, our Neanderthal cousins could be to ...

The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

New research suggests that modern conditions may trace back to Neanderthal skull traits we share with our extinct cousins.

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as 125,000 years ago, smashed the marrow-rich bones into fragments with stone ...

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to Neumark-Nord in one massive load, where they were intensively processed into ...