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

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

Operators lost contact with the MethaneSAT satellite on 20 June, a significant blow to efforts to track – and stop – methane ...

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

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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 ...

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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.

Fans of the character comedian Graham Fellows will possibly turn up for this British film starring the man who created the ...