Ancient footprints found near the shores of Portugal's Algarve region are giving us fresh insights into the lives of ...

The enzyme AMPD1 plays a key role in muscle energy production and normal muscular function. Loss of AMPD1 activity due to ...

For centuries, we’ve imagined Neanderthals as distant cousins — a separate species that vanished long ago. But thanks to ...

A new documentary brings early human history to life with a "scientifically accurate" collection of hyper-real 3D models.

Archaeologists have uncovered remarkable evidence that Neanderthals roamed the shores of Portugal around 80,000 years ago.

A groundbreaking study reveals a 140,000-year-old child skull found in Israel may represent the first identified hybrid ...

A child buried in the world's oldest human cemetery had both modern human (Homo sapiens) and Neanderthal characteristics, ...

Neanderthals who lived 130,000 years ago crafted their tools from the bones of one of their deadliest predators.

Worldwide, the oldest known artifact of this type is a bone knife that was manufactured by modern humans in Morocco around 90,000 years ago. The revelation that Neanderthals were also working with ...

P rehistoric footprints found at the southwestern tip of mainland Europe show how Neanderthal families worked together to ambush prey on the beach. Dated to around 80,000 years ago, the trackways were ...

Significant brain defects known as Chiari malformations could be down the genes some of us have inherited from Neanderthals, ...

Human faces are famously flatter than those of other primates. Neanderthals, by contrast, had prominent, projecting midfaces ...