Recent archaeological findings have revealed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal behavior: their penchant for collecting. Researchers have unearthed a collection of 15 marine fossils, which seem ...

A stash of 15 marine fossils has been found in a Neanderthal cave in northern Spain, indicating that the extinct hominids may have developed a passion for accumulating stuff in the same way that ...

Comparison of that ancient DNA with modern human DNA showed that the two species had interbred and that people today still ...

We know more facts about Neanderthals than any other extinct humans. Many thousands of their artefacts and fossils have been found, including several nearly complete skeletons. We also know about ...

The frigid temperatures in Denisova Cave had preserved ancient DNA in Neanderthal fossils discovered there. But this bone, more than 60,000 years old, was different. When Pääbo and his team ...

Measurement of our braincase and pelvic shape can reliably separate a modern human from a Neanderthal – their fossils exhibit a longer, lower skull and a wider pelvis. Even the three tiny bones of our ...

The time period is full of fossil hominins that morphologically are “a bit of a mess,” he added. Some look distinct, but some have Neanderthal features, and still others have Homo sapiens ...

Neanderthals and Humans Lived Side by Side ... which centers on evidence from skulls of a 6-million-year-old fossil ape, Lufengpithecus, offers important clues about the origins of bipedal ...