New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

The Neumark-Nord site, discovered back in the 1980s, covers roughly 70 acres. In this region, Neanderthals hunted and ...

According to new research, Neanderthal DNA genes could be the reason that some people are more prone to a type of ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

MailOnline has asked leading paleoanthropologists to reveal what the hybrid children of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals would ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

A groundbreaking study reveals a 140,000-year-old child skull found in Israel may represent the first identified hybrid ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

What we eat helps shape who we are. That’s why paleoanthropologists are so fascinated by ancient diets; they hold clues to ...

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered astounding evidence of a 125,000-year-old "fat factory" run by Neanderthals. A new ...