As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

Scientists have uncovered the world s earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens features: a five-year-old child from Israel s Skhul Cave dating back 140,000 years. This discovery ...

In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and about ...

All cultures, however primitive, have used glues, resins and pitches obtained from various plants for their mechanical or medicinal properties. Neanderthals were no exception. This species commonly ...

In 1993, researchers working inside the Lamalunga cave in Altamura, southern Italy, stumbled across a 10-meter (32-foot) ...

Neanderthals emerged around 250.000 years ago from European populations—referred to as "pre-Neanderthals"—which inhabited the Eurasian continent between 500.000 and 250.000 years ago. It was long ...

Clues from studies of ancient plants and animals have helped archaeologists pin down where the last Neanderthals found refuge ...