A show at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago challenges the timeworn critics’ contention that painting is dead, expanding ...

Alfons and Adrie Kennis have devoted their lives to creating models of our ancient relatives – sometimes with controversial ...

Archaeological evidence shows that some Neanderthals looked after their sick and buried their dead, which suggests they were social and even compassionate beings. Prof Stringer says, 'So far, in my ...

Discoveries from the genomes of the last Neanderthals are rewriting the story of how our own species came to replace them ...

The book debunks the supposed discoveries “proving” that Neanderthals thought like us, made art like us, even went to war like us. Some punctured shells uncovered in Spain and feathers found ...

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals ...

Our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, excelled at making stone tools and hunting animals, and survived the rigors of multiple ice ages. So why did they disappear 27,000 years ago? While ...

We don't know when the last Neanderthal died, but many archaeologists think some of the last lineages lived in southern Iberia. Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the ...

Scientists have produced a remarkable reconstruction of what a Neanderthal woman would have looked like when she was alive. It is based on the flattened, shattered remains of a skull whose bones ...

Compared with the gregarious nature of modern humans, Neanderthal communities appear to have been surprisingly insular, according to past research, keeping to themselves more often than not. One group ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...