Because he was clad in modern clothes, it was easy to overlook the life-like statue's secret: he's a Neanderthal. The statue ...

Neanderthals went extinct roughly 40,000 years ... this hypothesis of them going extinct because of their isolated lifestyle is,” said Vimala, adding that more genomic data is needed to ...

Alfons and Adrie Kennis have devoted their lives to creating models of our ancient relatives – sometimes with controversial ...

Some 120,000 years ago, in the dry, rugged hills of the Levant, something extraordinary began to happen. Deep inside caves, ...

However, Neanderthals tended to bury their dead deeper in caves, whereas H. sapiens were buried in cave entrances or rock ...

A resurgence of interest in our ancient relatives is captivating audiences worldwide, and a German museum is at the forefront ...

The two species began burying their dead at roughly the same time and place. Now some archaeologists think competition may have played a role in burials.

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence suggests that Neanderthals living ...

Because he was clad in modern clothes, it was easy to overlook the life-like statue's secret: he's a Neanderthal. Located 15km east of Dusseldorf, the Neanderthal Museum lies just a short walk ...

“But modern humans and Neanderthals interacted, so we imagine that they communicated in similar ways.” Yet there is little to be gleaned from the modern life we know about what the ...

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