For decades, Neanderthals were thought to be our less sophisticated cousins who communicated through basic sounds and simple ...

Scientists are fleshing out their understanding of Neanderthals by analyzing a Neanderthal tooth. The dental analysis is ...

This roundup highlights five major discoveries from 2021 linked to human evolution and prehistory. The video covers ancient ...

Dental microwear analysis, which allows for the microscopic study of surface textures, confirmed that the marks were made ...

Left: computed tomographic (CT) scan of a Neanderthal fossil (La Ferrassie 1). Right: CT scan of a modern human. Credit: Philipp Gunz, License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 The human face is strikingly distinct ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be older than our own species. A new study from University of Iowa Health Care ...

Cavemen gathered shellfish to eat using the same methods as modern humans, according to new research. Neanderthals in southern Europe collected mollusks throughout the year — with a marked preference ...

Dating out of your league? New research says it's a tale as old as time. A study out Thursday in Science argues that Neanderthal men and human women were particularly inclined to mate, a sexual habit ...

In this new series, Human, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals our incredible story across 300,000 years of human ...