The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

The findings are “exciting,” according to Ludovic Slimak, an archaeologist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France.

"We're building a life that's looking more and more like our stories," he adds. Read More: Thorin the Neanderthal Was One of ...

Ludovic Slimak, 51, is a paleoanthropologist at the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail. In his latest book, The Naked Neanderthal: A New ...

Ludovic Slimak, photographed in 2022, poses with the milk tooth of both a homo sapien and a neanderthal. To confirm his suspicions about Thorin’s age and attempt to glean more information about ...

When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was immediately obvious that they belonged to a Neanderthal, the first intact ...

Ludovic Slimak, photographed in 2022, poses with the milk tooth of both a homo sapien and a neanderthal MATTHIEU RONDEL - Getty Images. To confirm his suspicions about Thorin’s age and attempt ...

(CNN) — When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was immediately obvious that they belonged to a Neanderthal, the first ...

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was ...

Analyzing a whole-genome sequence extracted from part of the root of one of Thorin's molars, researchers led by Ludovic Slimak from Toulouse, France's Center for Anthropobiology and Genomics ...

Ludovic Slimak, photographed in 2022, poses with the milk tooth of both a homo sapien and a neanderthal. To confirm his suspicions about Thorin’s age and attempt to glean more information about ...