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 ...

In 1856, quarry workers in a peaceful German valley stumbled across 16 bones that would shake the foundations of science. This is the incredible story of 'Neanderthal 1', the first ever Neanderthal to ...

The Neanderthals are our closest evolutionary human cousins and for hundreds of thousands of years were much more successful at colonizing Europe than we were. Recent archaeological evidence shows ...

Chimp and Neanderthal faces grow beyond adolescence, which explains their more rugged features. Credit: AI-generated image by ChatGPT 4o. Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people, but ...

The Altamura Man was discovered in a cave in southern Italy in 1993. K.A.R.S.T. PRIN Project Neanderthals had a distinctive appearance. Before they died out roughly 40,000 years ago, Homo sapiens’ ...