In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, led by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the Neanderthal ...

Scientists identified the earliest example of human interbreeding with Neanderthals, rewriting the history of the ancient species.

S cientists unearthed a granite pebble bearing the world's oldest known human fingerprint, left by a Neanderthal approximately 43,000 years ago. The pebble, found at the San Láza ...

ZWOLEN, POLAND—Science in Poland reports that archaeologists have uncovered a site in the Mazovia region that they believe served as a Neanderthal tool workshop around 70,000 years ago. The site of ...

A new study suggests an enzyme unique to Homo sapiens may have made us more competitive water seekers than our closest extinct relatives.

(CNN) — In a rocky outcrop on Mount Carmel, in what is now Israel, a group of ancient humans buried their dead about 140,000 years ago. Scientists uncovered the site, called Skhul Cave, in 1928, and ...

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