I have spent years covering discoveries that nudge our origin story around the edges, but the sequencing of DNA from one of the very last Neanderthals does something different: it rewrites the center ...

The first complete genetic portrait of a so‑called “last Neanderthal” is forcing scientists to redraw the map of our origins, from who we met to how we survived. Instead of a simple story of ...

Fragmented Neanderthal bones discovered in a cave in Belgium show that one group cannibalized the women and children of ...

Evidence from a prehistoric cave system indicates non-ritualistic cannibalism of Neanderthal women and children.

An exceptionally preserved Neanderthal skull suggests that their nasal passages were not specialized cold weather equipment.

Belgian cave analysis shows Neanderthal cannibalism involving nonlocal women and children who were killed and eaten 45,000 ...

Here’s how it works. A Neanderthal skull was discovered in a cave in Altamura, Italy, in 1993. (Image credit: Constantino Buzi/IPHES-CERCA) A digital analysis of the perfectly preserved nose bones on ...