A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

Neanderthal guys were no girlie-men. Prehistoric man apparently boasted a rock-hard body, including an overdeveloped right arm that would make Popeye jealous, according to a new scientific report. … ...

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

One Neanderthal child had a very bad day about 115,000 years ago. The child died — that much is certain — and the bones were gulped down and digested by a giant, prehistoric bird, according to ...

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

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

Watch a film about the making of the Neanderthal and Homo sapiens models on display in the Museum's Human Evolution gallery. Discover the art and science involved.

A fabricated image of a giant man towering above a crowd of people is being shared alongside false claims that it shows the “last Neanderthal giant”, but the image was likely generated using ...

The last days of the Neanderthals The climate and early human societies were changing quickly during the fall of our closest evolutionary relative—and are big clues to the causes of their demise.

Why did we think Neanderthals weren’t smart? Our earliest studies of Neanderthals were fundamentally flawed.

Scientists have created a more accurate Neanderthal reconstruction, based on a nearly complete skeleton discovered in France more than 100 years ago. The La Ferrassie Neanderthal man was short but ...

They were transfixed by the early human species who walked the Earth, “especially Neanderthals”, and by the slow crawl of history, from ape to ape-man to man.