On the shores of an ancient lake in what is now central Germany, a group of Neanderthals transformed a lakeside landscape ...

An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

Excavation uncovers evidence of 4 ancient human species, obsidian tools dating back over 300,000 years - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

The boomerang, found in a cave in southern Poland, may be the oldest in the world, dating back 40,000 years, according to researchers.

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

Neanderthals were very muscular and rugged, with large bodies and even larger heads. Their skulls show that they have room for a bigger brain than modern humans and would have been distinguished by a ...

MailOnline has asked the experts what the world might look like if the Neanderthals and Denisovans hadn't gone extinct.

India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded through genomic data from 2,762 people. The study uncovers surprising levels ...

Rather than chasing grammar in animals, a more grounded approach asks what cognitive difference might explain the gap ...