Deep inside a German cave, archaeologists have uncovered something extraordinary that challenges everything we thought we ...
As if Neanderthals weren’t already mysterious enough, groundbreaking research adds a startling new layer to our understanding ...
It has been over 40,000 years since the last of the Neanderthals, our ancient human cousins, disappeared from the Earth. But from the shape of your nose to whether someone is an early riser, ...
An international research team has identified the earliest fossil showing both Neanderthal and Homo sapiens traits. The skeleton, belonging to a five-year-old child found 90 years ago in Israel’s ...
(CNN) — 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 ...
For a long time, the Neanderthals were regarded as functional, survival-minded humans who possessed the capabilities of ...
Some of their skeletal features resembled those of Homo sapiens, while others were more Neanderthal-like, making the species difficult to classify. The first skeleton discovered at the Skhul burial ...