Neanderthals were intelligent, strong, and skilled early humans. From tool-making to burial rituals, discover 10 fascinating facts about our extinct relatives and their lasting legacy.

The age of the lines and how they were formed still needs to be verified, but there is a chance this may be one of the oldest ...

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Some movies are about history, but others deal with matters that predate history. There’s something fascinating about prehistoric times, and it gets even more intriguing when you bring those ...

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 ...

creating an outflow at the base of the carved pelvic area. View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Now, new findings suggest that part of the ...

Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered, because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals. The child’s remains were ...

Further analysis revealed that the prehistoric “Lapedo Child” displayed a unique blend of physical characteristics that would soon make them famous: a mixture of both human and Neanderthal fea ...

A study published in Nature Communications describes evolutionary changes in Neanderthal morphology through the analysis of their inner ear structures, known as the bony labyrinth. The research ...

You can find his previous stuff at Gizmodo and Paste if you look hard enough. Scientist Discover Age of Human-Neanderthal Hybrid ...

After thriving for hundreds of thousands of years, Neanderthals disappeared from Eurasia some 40,000 years ago. Today, their legacy lives on only fragments of their DNA embedded in the genomes of ...