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

Like a treasure hunter with an oddity from some distant land, Adrie Kennis squints curiously at his model of an ancient woman ...

A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging.

"Some Neanderthal populations died out, some got massacred, some interacted [with humans] and some only exchanged ideas." — ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient fossils, prehistoric artwork, and other clues to human evolution. Here are nine of the most ...

Picasso was particularly inspired by various prehistoric elements, as the 2023 exhibition No Past in Art: How Prehistory Inspired Picasso’s Work at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris showed. Gauguin, ...

The acclaimed writer's new book is as erudite as its predecessors, but it’s less self-conscious — funnier and freer.

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The idea of a species is fundamental to the way that many people understand the structure of life on Earth. But ask 10 ...

TALENTED photographers have shared more beautiful images of what has been described as ‘the comet of the century’.

DETERMINED Black Country photographers have been celebrating after capturing ‘the comet of the century’ as it put in another ...

For Bruno Lacombe, the French philosopher at the heart of Rachel Kushner’s fantastic new novel, “Creation Lake,” that point was the Neanderthal. “Thals,” Bruno’s affectionate shorthand ...