For most of Europe’s history, the people who lived there did not resemble the pale figures often shown in history books. New ...

A new study analyzes the nasal cavity of the "Altamura Man," a Neanderthal who died between 130,000 and 172,000 years ago ...

An exceptionally preserved Neanderthal skull suggests that their nasal passages were not specialized cold weather equipment.

A single Neanderthal skeleton pulled from a cave in the Rhône Valley has opened a window onto a branch of our cousins that ...

Buried in a cave for over 130,000 years, a perfectly preserved Neanderthal skull has shattered a major belief about how our ancient cousins survived the Ice Age.

The sarcophagus was found among abandoned houses in a quarter of Aquincum that had been vacated in the 3rd century and later repurposed as a burial ground. Nearby discoveries included a Roman aqueduct ...

An analysis of Neanderthal nose bones suggests the species’ famously large noses did not evolve primarily to warm and ...

An articulated Neanderthal skeleton that was discovered during an excavation at the famous Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.

A long-standing debate in paleontology about whether the distinctive Neanderthal nose evolved purely for the cold weather may have finally been solved, and it's all thanks to an ancient, exceptionally ...

Thought to be between 130,000 and 172,000 years old, the Altamura Man can’t be extracted from the cave as it is embedded in rock and covered in concretions called calcite popcorn coralloids, yet Buzi ...

The disappearance of the Neanderthals—our archaic hominin cousins—remains one of the great unresolved riddles of ancient human history. Now, new research puts forward an intriguing theory: they may ...