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 ...

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

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 ...

The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...

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

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, ...

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