Investigations on various sites at Strait of Gibraltar revealed not only the presence of first-ever intercontinental rock art ...

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

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

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

Palaeolithic humans living on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar were a creative bunch to say the least, and were ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The discovery of ancient human cousins has long stirred wonder and debate. Early Neanderthal remains offered a glimpse into our distant past, prompting questions about how they lived and whether they ...

On the slopes of Mount Carmel in northern Israel, a small skull has changed the story of human history. Buried in Skhul Cave roughly 140,000 years ago, the remains of a five-year-old child show that ...

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

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

Using chemical clues from Neanderthal bones, researchers have placed the species at the top of the food chain, alongside apex ...