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

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

Yet the Scladina multitool is the first known lion bone turned into a tool. It means Neanderthals not only handled lions, but ...

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

The enzyme AMPD1 plays a key role in muscle energy production and normal muscular function. Loss of AMPD1 activity due to ...

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

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones ...

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

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

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...

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