Discovery of Genetic Mutation That Separates Humans and Neanderthals

An international team of scientists representing Russia, Germany, and the United States have found a unique mechanism at work in the DNA of…

Humans and Neanderthals Met and Mated 50,000 Years Ago in Negev Desert

A recent re-examination of artifacts collected from Israel’s central Negev desert has revealed important details about the development of human culture in the…

“German” Neanderthals Altered Ecosystem 125,000 Years Ago

Archaeologists from Leiden University in the Netherlands have released the results of a study that proves Neanderthals altered ecosystems in significant ways. The…

Big Difference Between Neanderthal and Modern Human Brains Discovered

Updated 9 September, 2022 - 18:50 Sahir Neanderthals, a subspecies of archaic humans who split from modern humans sometime between 300,000 and 80,000…

Giant Elephant Hunt Reveals Emerging Neanderthal Society

Updated 2 February, 2023 - 17:59 Sahir New evidence has emerged that Neanderthals were more advanced hunters and gatherers than previously thought. A…

Neanderthals Filled This Spanish Cave with Animal Skulls. But Why?

Updated 27 January, 2023 - 21:52 Nathan Falde As the data continues to accumulate, it becomes more and more clear that Neanderthals were…

Modern Humans Derived Their Long and Broad Noses From Neanderthals

Long dismissed for being our brutish ancestors, we share more with Neanderthals than we think, and increasingly research is showing us just how…

Schöningen Spears, 300,000 Years Old, Shows Prehistoric Advanced Woodworking

Updated 19 July, 2023 - 19:01 Sahir Excavated in the 1990s, the legendary Schöningen spears from Germany, the oldest weapons in human history,…

Climate change was the matchmaker between Denisovans and Neanderthals.

It has been 5 years since the unearthing of Denny , a 90,000-year-old fossil specimen that had a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal…

48,000 years ago, Neanderthal hunters were pursuing cave lions.

A international team of paleoanthropologists has just published research supposedly proving that Neanderthals were hunting and eating cave lions nearly 50,000 years ago…

A Cross-Continental Odyssey Tracks Neanderthal DNA! (Video)

While Neanderthals went extinct approximately 40,000 years ago, they left a legacy hidden inside the genetic codes of humans, in the form of…

Reassessing Neanderthals: Do They Truly Belong to the Same Species as Us?

Neanderthals have been recognized as a species distinct from modern humans for quite some time. But if a trio of researchers from universities…