Findings in the La Roche-Cotard cave reveal that Neanderthals were the world’s first artists. Credit: Jean-Claude Marquet et al. / CC BY 4.0 In the French cave of La Roche-Cotard, which has been ...

Around 37,000 years ago, the massive eruption of Italy's Phlegraean Fields disrupted ecosystems across the Mediterranean, affecting food chains and putting pressure on Neanderthal survival.

An ancient spear-throwing tool enabled prehistoric hunters to boost the distance they could launch a feathered projectile – but the unexpected negative effects of gravity on the tool may explain ...

Two new studies found that ancient human ancestors carried a surprising diversity of genes for amylase, an enzyme that breaks down starch. By Carl Zimmer As soon as you put starch in your mouth ...

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Neanderthals live on within us. These ancient human cousins, and others called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens ancestors. They mingled and had children. So some of who they ...

The question lingered: Would the future belong to the young, or would these relics—the Neanderthals—drag the nation into oblivion? As they hoard spoils in their pillaging stash. Cursed be the ...

Ancient hunter-gatherers and even Neanderthals already had multiple AMY1 copies Analyzing the genomes of 68 ancient humans, including a 45,000-year-old sample from Siberia, the research team found ...

But anyone studying the horizon just after sunset in the coming days is in with a chance of spotting a comet last seen when Neanderthals ... said the large, icy body could become 'the most ...

Around 41,000 years ago, the very last Neanderthal took their final breath. At that moment, we became the only remaining hominins, the sole survivors of the once diverse family of bipedal apes.