They drew with crayons, possibly fed on maggots and maybe even kissed us: Forty millenniums later, our ancient human cousins ...

But some Neanderthal DNA helped modern humans survive and reproduce, and thus it has lingered in our genomes. Nowadays, ...

Today, thanks to new artifacts and technologies, findings about our closest relatives are coming thick and fast Tim Vernimmen, Knowable Magazine Neanderthals have ...

Recent archaeological findings have revealed a fascinating aspect of Neanderthal behavior: their penchant for collecting. Researchers have unearthed a collection of 15 marine fossils, which seem to be ...

Genetic studies show Neanderthals had varied skin and hair pigmentation adapted to their environments. Some populations ...

Neanderthals have fascinated scientists since they were first discovered in the 19th century. Their long heads and low brow ...

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands of years of history. In a new discovery about this mysterious yet often ...

The ability to make fire on demand has long been seen as a turning point in our evolutionary story. It unlocked benefits like ...

The ability to make art has often been considered a hallmark of our species. Over a century ago, prehistorians even had trouble believing that modern humans from the Upper Palaeolithic (between 45,000 ...

S ome groups of European Neanderthals may have lost the ability to make fire during the colder periods of their existence. As ...

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 ...