An analysis of ancient animal bones found in Germany suggests that Neanderthals extracted grease from them to gobble up ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more ...

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

Researchers have reexaminated a mammoth ivory boomerang that was discovered in Obłazowa cave in Poland in 1985.

People with Chiari malformations have a skull shape similar to Neanderthals, suggesting that the condition may be caused by ...

India’s complex ancestry—intertwined with Iranian farmers, Steppe herders, and local hunter-gatherers—has now been decoded through genomic data from 2,762 people. The study uncovers surprising levels ...

"We're building a life that's looking more and more like our stories," he adds. Read More: Thorin the Neanderthal Was One of ...

When the archaeologists dated the boomerang in Poland, it was dated to 30,000 years ago. In the same area, a human thumb bone ...

Paleoanthropologist Ludovic Slimak, who studies Neanderthals and their possible interactions with Homo sapiens, holds two tools, the smaller belonging to H. sapiens, the other to Neanderthals ...

Scientists have discovered what may be one of the oldest boomerangs in the world, hidden in a Polish cave for tens of ...

The new analysis traces Indian ancestry back to a migration out of Africa around 50,000 years ago, after which humans interbred with Neanderthals and Denisovans and then spread throughout Eurasia.

With around 5,000 different ethno-linguistic and religious groups, India is one of the most culturally and genetically ...