The skull of a 5-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago has similarities with modern Homo sapiens and Neanderthals, ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

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

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands ...

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

For the past 40,000 years, Homo sapiens have been the only human species on Earth. Our ancestors, including the Neanderthals ...

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

The evidence constitutes the earliest clear case of intensive grease-rendering yet documented for the Paleolithic.

According to the authors, the huge cache of bones may have been collected over a period of time before being imported to ...

Nord, Germany, systematically transported and processed the bones of at least 172 large mammals to extract nutrient-rich ...

The predecessors of the Neanderthals likely split from the ancestors of modern humans at least 500,000 years ago, and spread out across Europe and into southwest and central Asia.

Their simulations mapped out possible routes Neanderthals could have followed to reach Asia, and suggest that by traveling ...