his nose was large and his chin was recessed. "We call him Mr Four Percent," said the museum's director, Bärbel Auffermann.

For decades, we've thought of our Neanderthal cousins as brutish, primitive beings. Second-class humans driven extinct by their own fallibility and stupidity. But as we are fast learning ...

A recently published scientific paper has confirmed the close genetic links between a Neanderthal population in the Rhone Valley, France, and the Gibraltar Neanderthal population. DNA analysis has ...

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 ...

One, a Neanderthal with furry eyebrows made when the twins were seven, has a “great big nose” but “no chin”. “You cannot argue with this one,” Alfons jokes. The other, an ape-man ...

Bordeaux, CNRS, MCC, Pessac, France Exploring the varied subsistence strategies and cave occupation patterns of Neanderthals is key to understanding their complex behaviors and ecological adaptations.

Mel Chin was born in 1951 in Houston, Texas, and currently lives and works in North Carolina. He received a BA from Peabody College in 1975. Chin uses technology, collage, sculpture, and large-scale ...

Artist Mel Chin discusses the inspiration for his 1991 land art piece, Revival Field. And put it this way: I say that it’s the traditional sculpture that I’m interested in. Michelangelo has his ...

Chu Chin Chow is based on the tale of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. The setting is themagnificent Eastern palace of Kasim Baba who welcomes the Chinese merchant Chu Chin Chow. He is, in fact, not ...

This comet, last seen during the Neanderthal era, made its closest transit past the sun on September 27, prompting worldwide monitoring by astronomers. According to NASA, as a comet approaches the ...