A new study has revealed that Neanderthals possessed an unexpected and highly durable tool in their kits: the teeth of prehistoric rhinoceroses. Marks found on fossilized rhino teeth discovered in ...

They weren’t dummies who were smashing random objects together. They were creating things that helped create other things.

Somewhere around 47,000 years ago, in mountain valleys and along migration corridors stretching from Iran to central Europe, ...

Fossils offer a detailed record of early human skulls but not the brains inside them. So researchers have been using genetic material taken from those fossils to search for clues about how the human ...

Neanderthal skull discovered in 1908 in France. (Luna04/Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0) In 1857, the German anatomist Hermann Schaaffhausen analyzed a human fossil with "an extraordinary form" that he ...

The Zlatý kůň skull, found in a cave site in present-day Czechia. Its DNA showed similarities to bones found in a German cave, according to new research. Hidden in many people’s genetic codes is a ...

Neanderthals may not only have feasted on rhinoceroses, they may also have used their exceptionally hard teeth as specialized ...

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia. In this month of love, amid the exchange of flowers and cards, genomic ...

A recent study compared features of Neanderthals' inner ears across space and time to extrapolate what happened to them tens of thousands of years ago. Reading time 3 minutes DNA studies suggest that ...

Neanderthals are also continuing their own journey through history, and the latest scientific study conducted at Stajnia Cave in Poland is bringing an exciting new dimension to it. For the first time, ...

Miners in Germany's Neander Valley unearthed peculiar bones in 1856, revealing evidence of a distinct human type. This ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the origin and evolution of our closest relative, the Neanderthal. Now, researchers say Neanderthals seem to have developed their distinctive jaws and other facial ...