For the last 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species walking the Earth but what would cavemen like Neanderthals and Denisovans look like today if they had survived. DailyMail.com ...

The fingerprint, discovered on a painted pebble in a Spanish cave, represents the oldest known evidence of Neanderthal ...

New research has uncovered an extraordinary discovery that challenges our understanding of early human evolution. A young ...

First Set of Modern Humans to Enter Europe Vanished in 5000 Years — and Left No Descendants The book of human evolution has ...

The print was discovered in red ochre pigment on a granite stone at the Abrigo de San Lázaro site near Segovia ...

Archaeologists have long debated the origin of human symbolic behavior. The dominant idea was that only modern humans (Homo sapiens) were capable of complex symbolic thought and behavior; such as ...

When we look at those faces, we see beings that resemble us in many ways, but with more robust features, larger noses, and forward-projected midfaces, especially compared to our narrower, more ...

Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t previously been found in East Asia, study says.

Scientists Found a Human-Neanderthal Hybrid Who Lived Long After His People Went Extinct The ‘Lapedo Boy’ was found in 1998, but we only now figured out when he lived. By Tim Newcomb Published ...

The remains of the Lapedo Child, found in Portugal in 1998, showed signs of being both Neanderthal and human, as later confirmed by DNA. New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to ...

These characteristics include the highly flexed position of the deceased and the placement of various objects inside the grave, including animal remains and chunks of ochre,” they continue.

The skeleton had mostly human-like features, but it also had the body proportions, jawbone and pitted occipital bone at the back of the skull that were characteristic of Neanderthals.