Neanderthals may have used a red pigment on a rock to shape what looks like art - a rendition of a facial figure from 43,000 ...

In this video, I explore and clarify the misconceptions surrounding Neanderthals in an easy-to-share format. The first misconception is that Neanderthals were unintelligent cave-dwelling brutes; ...

Maba 1 was considered a ‘Chinese Neanderthal’ for their resemblance manifested in the facial area. However, this study did ...

Noting how the finger-painted red dot combines with a series of natural depressions in the pebble to form an image, the ...

Maba 1 also suffered trauma before death, but the specific cause of the trauma remains unknown.

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

A 300,000-year-old skull found in China may belong to a completely unknown human species—rewriting everything we thought we ...

New Homo erectus skull fossils found undersea reveal migration across ancient Sundaland, suggesting cultural exchange and advanced hunting in prehistoric Southeast Asia ...

We are just one branch of a diverse human family tree. Aside from Neanderthals, who were they – and why did we replace them?

Recent testing shows the remains are around 28,000 years old, which supports the idea that these populations did more than ...

to explore how facial shapes evolved from a molecular and cellular perspective. Their study, published in the Journal of Human Evolution, compared fossils from Neanderthals, chimpanzee skulls, and ...

Schuh and her colleagues tracked the changes in face shape and bone cell activity throughout the lifetime of modern humans, Neanderthals, and chimpanzees by comparing the skulls of 128 humans ...