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 ...

Paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak, who studies Neanderthals and their possible interactions with Homo sapiens, holds two tools, the smaller belonging to H. sapiens, the other to Neanderthals ...

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

Ancient DNA reveals new twists in Neanderthal migration. Genetic surprises pulled from 120,000-year-old bones showcase the nuanced history of this close human relative.

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

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 ...

Many scientists now consider Neanderthals capable of symbolic thought. Their tool sets varied across regions, and some shaped pigments into lumps or used them for body decoration. Although modern ...

With minimal Neanderthal archaeological sites connecting Eastern Europe and Eurasia, it had long been a mystery as to how Neanderthals traveled between the two regions between 120,000 years and 60,000 ...

Neanderthals may have trekked thousands of miles across Eurasia much faster than we ever imagined. New computer simulations suggest they used river valleys like natural highways to cross daunting ...

Recent scholarship has concluded that Neanderthals made a second major migration from Eastern Europe to Central and Eastern Eurasia between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago. But the routes they took ...