Every time you look in the mirror, you are seeing the legacy of an extinct cousin. A small but influential fraction of your ...

Every face carries a story, shaped long before birth by a quiet choreography of genes switching on and off at just the right moment. A new study suggests that part of that story reaches far back into ...

Neanderthals had a taste for fat, and they worked hard to get it. Long before humans built cities or invented writing, these ancient people had already figured out how to extract every bit of ...

Researchers have found Neanderthal footprints that date back approximately 78,000 years on the shores of Monte Clérigo Beach, located in southern Portugal. These ancient tracks, left by a Neanderthal ...

Art is often held up as the most “human” of human endeavors. For millennia, philosophers, historians, and archaeologists have used art and symbolic thinking as behavioral indices for what makes humans ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When scientists sequenced the Neanderthal genome in 2010, they learned that Neanderthals ...