A digital analysis of the perfectly preserved nose bones on a bizarre-looking Neanderthal skull reveals that a long-standing theory about Neanderthal noses doesn't pass the sniff test. The skull comes ...

Geneticists have a better understanding of how prehistoric pairings unfolded, with new research suggesting they were mostly ...

Deep inside a cave in central Spain, Neanderthals repeatedly carried horned and antlered skulls of large herbivores, stripped them of flesh, and arranged them near fires over what appears to be ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago.

The findings may reveal new insights into early human mating preferences ...

Neanderthals shared many features with their ancestors—a prominent brow, weak chin, sloping skull and large nose—but were as big-brained as the anatomically modern humans that later colonized Europe, ...

Two skulls found in a Grecian cave paint a surprising portrait of who lived there hundreds of thousands of years ago. One fragmentary skull has been dated to 210,000 years ago, and researchers believe ...

When ancient humans mated, dad was a Neanderthal, mom was Homo sapiens.

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like ...

Neanderthals appear to have carried them into the cave in separate visits. The time period, researchers think, is possibly ...

Nasty, brutish and short. Until about the last decade or so, that is how many of us were accustomed to thinking about Neanderthal life. But a lot has changed since then, not least of which is the ...

A new investigation of ancient horned animal skulls found in Spain's Des-Cubierta Cave deepens the mystery of when and why ...