The history of human settlement in the valleys of the Pyrenees and Pre-Pyrenees has always been closely tied to climate ...

A comprehensive review of dodo science offers new insights into the biology and behavior of the much-ridiculed bird.

Archaeologists have uncovered a fascinating discovery in the Rhône Valley, France—an ancient Neanderthal lineage that ...

But Stringer also pointed out that many researchers accept a fossil from South Africa called Florisbad, dating to 260,000 years ago, and fossils from Morocco as examples of early Homo sapiens. "The ...

This area includes one of the best-known Neanderthal sites, Shanidar Cave, where the remains of ten Neanderthal individuals ...

It was disturbing to hear of a second assassin shooting for Donald Trump. This has brought a lot of criticism about the ...

A new study posits a very surprising answer to one of history's great mysteries—what killed off the Neanderthals?

A new genetic analysis revealed that Thorin’s community was isolated from other groups and diverged from more well-studied ...

Dental enamel suggests our extinct cousins experienced longer periods of stress during childhood.

A new study, based on the remains of a Neanderthal nicknamed Thorin, is shaking up what archaeologists long thought about these early humans in Europe ...

A fossil Neanderthal named for a Tolkien character indicates that geographically close groups of the ancient humans didn't ...