An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up ...

Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our ...

For the last 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human ... At the same time, the idea that you could just slap a hat on a Neanderthal and you would not think twice about sitting next to him ...

MailOnline has asked the experts what the world might look like if the Neanderthals and Denisovans hadn't gone extinct.

Could a Neanderthal gene offer protection against the severity of Covid-19? This video discusses the Gene OAS1 and its protective variant rs10774671-G, examining how it influences the body's response ...

Last summer, she invited a dozen foreign scientists, including Welker and Demeter, to western China for an international symposium on Denisovans. “We cannot work and publish alone,” Demeter says.

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...