Along the southwestern coast of Portugal, fossilized footprints preserved in ancient dunes provide a rare glimpse into ...

A study shows Neanderthals made first fire in Britain 400,000 years ago, pushing back the timeline of controlled fire use by ...

The expression of symbolic behavior, such as drawing, dates back to Paleolithic societies. Alongside modern humans (Homo ...

The findings, described in the journal Nature, push back the earliest known date for controlled fire-making by roughly ...

Research focused on human remains found at the Troisième caverne of Goyet, a cave site in present-day Belgium that contains ...

More than a decade after the first Neanderthal genome was sequenced, scientists are still working to understand how ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence yet of fire technology — and it was created by Neanderthals in England more ...

Scientists trace the origins of human kissing back over 20 million years to ancient apes who first showed gentle ...

Copious evidence from the fossil record, spread across time and geography, shows that neanderthals ate each other. Scientists have discovered neanderthal bones that bear the same marks of butchery as ...

The act of kissing may have started long before modern humans existed, a new modeling study suggests. Kissing stretches back roughly 21 million years, to the shared ancestor of humans and other large ...

A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may have finally been solved, and it's all thanks to an ancient, exceptionally ...

The first analysis of a well-preserved nasal cavity in the human fossil record has revealed that the hefty Neanderthal nose wasn’t adapted to cold climates in the way many people thought it was.