A famous prehistoric cave site in Belgium has yielded the oldest multifunctional tool of its kind. This Ice Age “Swiss Army ...

New research suggests that they smashed animal bones into tiny pieces before boiling them to extract the high-calorie grease ...

Yet the Scladina multitool is the first known lion bone turned into a tool. It means Neanderthals not only handled lions, but ...

Shamahi, tracing the development of Homo sapiens across 300,000 years of prehistory in the first of a five-part series, Human ...

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

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

According to new research, Neanderthal DNA genes could be the reason that some people are more prone to a type of ...

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

What we eat helps shape who we are. That’s why paleoanthropologists are so fascinated by ancient diets; they hold clues to ...

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

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