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

Roughly 125,000 years ago, Neanderthals gathered near a lake to extract the grease contained within animal bones. To do so, ...

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

Archaeologists in Germany have uncovered astounding evidence of a 125,000-year-old "fat factory" run by Neanderthals. A new ...

The researchers used modern CT scanning techniques to get a new and detailed look, suggesting that the child might be a ...

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

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, ...

Archaeological findings reveal Neanderthals operated a 'fat factory' 125,000 years ago in what is now Germany, smashing bones ...

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

"Humans picked up some Neanderthal DNA through interbreeding, while the Neanderthal population, always fairly small, was ...

An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat 125,000 ...