These piercing eyes belong to a reconstruction of a Neanderthal, an ancient human relative that shared the planet with Denisovans and modern humans. Genetic research suggests that they went ...

New evidence reveals that Neanderthals were rendering fat from animal bones 125,000 years ago.

New DNA evidence challenges the timeline of human migration to Australia. The ongoing debate about the timeline of human ...

A newly published research paper has reignited debate about when humans first set foot in Australia, proposing a later date ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

A new DNA model suggests humans didn't reach Australia until 50,000 years ago, but archaeological data disagrees.

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

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

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

Recent research clobbered that theory by showing pre-modern hominins evolution unique to Europe: The fossil, uncovered at the ...

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 ...

"We're building a life that's looking more and more like our stories," he adds. Read More: Thorin the Neanderthal Was One of ...