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 ...
A complex picture of how Neanderthals died out, and the role that modern humans played in their disappearance, is emerging. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Was a lack of get-up-and-go the death of the Neanderthals? A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of history's great mysteries -- what killed off the Neanderthals? Archaeological finds ...
Scientists found new clues about one of the last living Neanderthals. By sequencing the DNA from one of the Neanderthal's teeth, they discovered a completely new lineage. The DNA indicates recent ...
Scientists are one step closer to solving the mystery of humanity's last great extinction: why the Neanderthals died off. The Neanderthals are our closest ancient human relatives. But around ...
Your support makes all the difference. A comet that was last viewed by the Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago could be seen tonight, with astronomers calling it the “comet of the ...
The study also found that AMY1 gene duplications occurred in Neanderthals and Denisovans. “This suggests that the AMY1 gene may have first duplicated more than 800,000 years ago, well before humans ...