Researchers examining the brains of living people found that they differed more substantially than Neanderthals' brains ...

Neanderthal populations in southern Europe collected shellfish throughout the year, with a marked preference for the colder ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis) shared the Earth for thousands of years, walking the same landscapes ...

In a cave in Cartagena, Spain, limpet shells and snails were found, collected in the same way modern humans would have done ...

The discovery of 773,000-year-old fossils in a cave in Morocco is transforming the geography of human origins by placing the start of the modern-human lineage squarely in northwestern Africa, ...

Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is ...

We now know that Neanderthals both had the knowledge to identify a tooth infection and the fine motor skills to drill out the damage.

Neanderthals used sophisticated techniques with a stone drill to treat a painful dental cavity, according to new research.

Your stereotypical leering barbarian chief has access to mass-produced food for his harem of abducted princesses and their children, whether it be access to farmland, a flock of livestock, and/or ...

Our ancestors lived alongside Neanderthals for nearly 200,000 years, often interbreeding with them. But could they understand ...