They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

Researchers looked into the Gorham's cave complex and found evidence of 100,000 years of activity associated with ...

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Gorham's Cave in Gibraltar is thought to be one of the last Neanderthal refuges and scientists have been working to unravel ...

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But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.